Sanitation

Neighbours provide water and electricty to informal settlement

City of Cape Town says it’s assessing what is required for infrastructure in Nyunywini, Kraaifontein

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News | 13 November 2017

Preview: Parents of drowned child seek justice

Michael Komape died in a toilet at school. Now James and Rosina Komape are going to court to compel the state to provide decent sanitation to schools across Limpopo.

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Law | 12 November 2017

Government is 11 years past deadline to end bucket system

About 17,000 toilets, each costing R15,000, built in Free State and none in use

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Parliament | 9 November 2017

Groundbreaking toilet case heads to Equality Court

Service provided by the City of Cape Town to be put under the spotlight

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Law | 7 November 2017

PE sewage spill drained

Municipality suspects “sabotage”

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Brief | 16 October 2017

Hekpoort settlement has been trying for 12 years to get water

Frustrated Schaumburg residents fed-up with politicians

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News | 11 October 2017

No toilets in Barcelona after 25 years

“We sleep with shit inside our shacks at night”

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Brief | 11 October 2017

PE houses stand in “dams of human faeces”

Municipality blames blockages on “foreign objects”

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Brief | 10 October 2017

Wolseley residents complain of no refuse collection for five years

Municipality says iIlegal electrical connections and land occupations hinder service delivery in Zakhele

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News | 9 October 2017

One pit toilet for 20 families

No protests in Masibulele for 10 years but residents are fed up

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News | 3 October 2017

64-year-old Duncan Village resident has to walk 1km to the toilet

“It is not the municipality who tells people to start the informal settlement; they do it at their own risk” says councillor

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News | 27 September 2017

Retreat residents want City to dump rubbish site plan

Cape Town plans to greatly expand its drop-off facility for bulky waste and recyclables

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News | 25 September 2017

Bearing Witness: Why it is worth seeing Masixole Feni’s photography

A Drain on our Dignity provides a visual slice through townships of Cape Town

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Opinion | 22 September 2017

“Our grass is only cut when they host ANC rallies”

Pietermaritzburg township residents call for street lights, better roads, housing and clean toilets

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News | 21 September 2017

Premier Zille’s childhood toilets not comparable to informal settlements

She has once more shown a lack of understanding of the lives of black people

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Opinion | 8 September 2017

Dead dogs, dirty nappies, old food: rubbish piles up in Marikana

City says land is private and it therefore cannot provide a refuse service

Text by Denise Patterson. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

Photo Essay | 6 September 2017