Sanitation
Rubbish piles up in Enkanini for nearly two weeks
Residents in the informal settlement in Khayelitsha have been forced to live with overflowing drains and rubbish
News | 5 February 2016
Churches plead with residents to stop dumping rubbish
Illegal dumping costs Cape Town R350 million a year
News | 28 January 2016
Barcelona residents throw poo onto N2
A dispute over who should clean the informal settlement’s toilets is escalating.
News | 21 January 2016
Lindelani residents have to clean communal toilets
No cleaning services since September
News | 20 January 2016
No agreement on who will clean Barcelona’s toilets
The informal settlement's toilets are overflowing and unusable.
News | 15 January 2016
The forgotten people of the Western Cape
Klipheuwel is an informal settlement about 10km north of Durbanville. It seldom gets any news coverage. GroundUp's photographer, Masixole Feni, spent time in the area.
07 January 2016
This school has 300 students and no running water
Mahlubini Junior Secondary School near Cofimvaba has close to 300 students, no electricity in the classrooms and no running water.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 1 December 2015
Living in cardboard shacks … inside a hostel
“The condition that these people live in is uncalled for,” says Ward 52 Councillor Mayenzeke Sopaqa. He is describing a derelict area in Section 18, Langa, known as Emaholweni, established 45 years ago in what has become a no-man’s-land, all but abandoned by the authorities.
Photos by Masixole Feni and Liza Kettil.Text by Thembela Ntongana
News | 19 November 2015
Endlovini residents accuse councillor of breaking promises
Tempers flared last night in Endlovini in Khayelitsha, with angry residents burning portable toilets and blockading the road in a protest over housing.
Siyavuya Khaya
News | 17 November 2015