Sanitation

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Residents want sewerage system because pit toilets are full

Ward councillor says there will be sewers by 2019 latest

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Brief | 14 March 2018

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Community tries crowd funding to get toilets

With a week till deadline on Thundafund, not a cent has been raised

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News | 13 March 2018

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Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

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Why Dunoon has erupted

Roads have been blockaded and MyCiTi bus stations destroyed

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Feature | 16 February 2018

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Addo residents sick of sewage spills

Municipality says system is ageing and blocked

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News | 15 February 2018

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Rubbish piles up as workers protest

Angry former employees block garbage collection in Gauteng

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News | 7 February 2018

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Raw sewage swamps houses in Kraaifontein

City said it would fix the problem last week

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News | 6 February 2018

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Broken Motherwell drains fixed at last

Municipality sends a team after GroundUp story

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Brief | 29 January 2018

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It’s already Day Zero in Siyahlala

Living with 20 litres of water a day

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Photo Essay | 26 January 2018