Sanitation

Buy or expropriate the land, Marikana shack dwellers tell City

“In a big and beautiful city like Cape Town I don’t expect this kind of life”

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Brief | 24 April 2019

“All we want is to see the government collect the rubbish”

Uncollected garbage in refuse bins has lined the streets of Uitenhage for three weeks

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Brief | 9 April 2019

“The municipality is not collecting our rubbish, but they threaten to arrest us if we dump”

Residents say Queenstown is left with only one garbage truck

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Brief | 4 April 2019

Bobani must deliver on his promises to PE shack dwellers, say protesters

Councillor promises that informal settlements in NU29 will have services in two weeks

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Brief | 1 April 2019

Give us water not toilets, say Newcastle residents

Manzana settlement resorts to illegal connections

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Brief | 22 March 2019

Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive

“The City will never help us until we protest.”

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News | 18 March 2019

Living beside an open sewer in Port Elizabeth

“Raw sewage pops out of the ground … It eventually overflows into the house”

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News | 18 March 2019

Cape Town shack dwellers march for RDP houses

“As long as each family has a tap, a toilet, and a box of electricity, we will be happy.”

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News | 15 March 2019

Janitors face losing battle in Khayelitsha as taps fail

City investigating low water pressure problem

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News | 12 March 2019