Sinethemba Mfaca spends his days trapped in his one-roomed shack
News | 1 November 2016
Communal toilets blocked for months
News | 31 October 2016
Residents fear drinking water will mix with faeces and make them sick
By Vincent Lali
News | 27 October 2016
We have to beg for our basic needs as human beings, says trader
News | 26 October 2016
“Sometimes I cannot even cook because the smell from the toilets is overwhelming”
News | 21 October 2016
Community appoints its own cleaner and guard
By Vincent Lali
News | 13 October 2016
Much needed rain comes to Cape Town, but it's a mixed blessing for residents of informal settlements
Photo Essay | 17 September 2016
Municipal workers have been on strike all week
News | 15 September 2016
After sewerage pipes were fixed, municipal workers did not clean up the mess
News | 8 September 2016
Pit toilets built in villages have collapsed
News | 29 August 2016
"The truck meant to fetch the portaloos never comes"
News | 1 August 2016
Resident says she’s been voting since 1994, but it has brought her nothing
News | 22 July 2016
No electricity since February in Mfuleni housing project
News | 21 July 2016
Municipality claims major progress in sanitation
News | 21 July 2016
For years, residents of Ekwarini have lived in damp squalor, and the Buffalo City administration has done nothing about it
News | 11 July 2016
SJC says Cape Town municipality has failed to provide adequate sanitation to decades-old informal settlements
By Kayla Molander and Rejul Bejoy
News | 4 July 2016