Sanitation

Summary image for article

Potholes, broken drains and crime: you’ve got to be brave to drive in Samora Machel

Sewage oozes onto the streets and there are holes in the main roads

By

News | 29 August 2023

Summary image for article

Streets in Durban township are covered in sewage

Ward councillor blames frequent sewerage blockages on residents throwing rubbish into the drains

By

Brief | 28 August 2023

Summary image for article

Gauteng Premier promises a “realistic” plan for services in Slovo Park

The settlement has waited for over two decades to be upgraded despite a 2016 court ruling in residents’ favour

By

News | 24 August 2023

Summary image for article

1,500 families share three toilets in Durban informal settlement

Nearly 40 blocked toilets have not been fixed after two years

By

News | 17 August 2023

Summary image for article

Jobless residents clean up rubbish dumps in Nyanga East

Volunteers work from 9am to 1pm on weekdays

By

Brief | 8 August 2023

Summary image for article

After a month of no refuse collection, Dunoon residents march to municipal offices

Subcouncil 3 manager says area is too volatile to render services

By

Brief | 7 August 2023

Summary image for article

Khayelitsha families rally to help bury three children who died after playing on dump site

City of Cape Town and SAPS are investigating the deaths

By

News | 25 July 2023

Summary image for article

Protesters force city councillors to walk through sewage

Kariega residents divert Mandela Day convoy

By

News | 24 July 2023

Summary image for article

Over 1,000 shack dwellers protest: “We are tired of living in squalor”

City of Cape Town accused of “persistent failure to collect rubbish ” in informal settlements

By

News | 21 July 2023

Summary image for article

Soweto informal settlement abandoned by government

After 33 years, just five working toilets and four working taps for hundreds of households in Nomzamo Park

By

News | 21 July 2023

Summary image for article

Furious residents confront Kariega officials after child drowns in sewage

“You only come to us when our children die,” deputy mayor is told

By

Brief | 17 July 2023

Summary image for article

Makhanda commuters ‘use the bush’ because taxi rank toilets have been closed for years

Councillor says she has asked the municipality for more public toilets in town

By

Brief | 30 June 2023

Summary image for article

Rubbish in Delft overwhelms City of Cape Town response

City says it spends R300-million a year cleaning up illegal dumps but can’t make headway without community support

By

Brief | 30 June 2023

Summary image for article

Under water for two weeks: Cape Town’s Covid informal settlement

Residents fear disease could break out from the human waste in the water

By

News | 26 June 2023

Summary image for article

Families here relieve themselves in plastic bags which they throw into the drains

In Lusaka informal settlement in Cape Town there are not enough toilets, drains are blocked, and there is a terrible stench

By

News | 22 June 2023

Summary image for article

Shack dwellers protest in support of Nelson Mandela Bay’s DA mayor

Mayor delivered over 300 chemical toilets that are cleaned every second day, a protester tells ANC representatives. “All you want to do is loot,” says another.

By

News | 25 May 2023