Sanitation

300 toilets without houses after five years

Uitenhage housing beneficiaries were moved to the toilets a year ago

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Brief | 12 July 2018

Municipality fails to fix burst pipe for two years, says resident

Uitenhage resident says area around his house remains waterlogged despite reporting the problem to the City several times

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Brief | 9 July 2018

Residents “take back” their community with clean-up initiative

The International Peace Youth Group in partnership with PRASA and Netreg residents cleaned the area around the train station on Saturday

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Brief | 9 July 2018

No toilets for informal settlement in Mthatha

The municipality says it can’t provide services because residents occupied the land illegally

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Brief | 6 July 2018

Hope for Johannesburg waste pickers

The City has committed to including them in recycling efforts, but activists are sceptical

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News | 2 July 2018

Pietermaritzburg residents start cleaning blitz

Sobantu residents say the municipality has neglected the township

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News | 2 July 2018

Why do informal settlements get cluttered with litter?

UCT survey of Island in Khayelitsha provides some answers

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Science | 29 June 2018

“We have no place to defecate” says Khayelitsha resident

City has promised to fix blocked toilets in Green Point informal settlement, but blames land occupiers for problem

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News | 28 June 2018

Roads ridden with potholes in Duncan Village, say residents

The municipality says it has budgeted to fix some of the roads in the township this year.

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Brief | 25 June 2018

“This area is used as a dumpsite” says Mandela Park resident

Residents accuse the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of neglecting their informal settlement. They believe politicians only visit the area to garner votes.

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News | 25 June 2018

Khayelitsha residents demand toilets, water and electricity

“We have had enough of living in squalor,” says shack-dweller

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News | 20 June 2018

Toilets blocked for nearly a year

City of Cape Town blames vandalism for the mess

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News | 20 June 2018

Protesters who targeted funeral processions finally get houses

Uitenhage families moved after 20 years in shacks

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News | 13 June 2018

Lusikisiki residents demand water

ANC members organise march against ANC politician

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Brief | 12 June 2018

Mfuleni shack-dwellers have been using an open field as a toilet. Now even the field is too dirty

Communal toilets in Burundi informal settlement haven’t been cleaned since January

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News | 8 June 2018

Vastrap residents demand houses, roads, toilets and electricity

Despite tensions, black and coloured residents protest together

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News | 1 June 2018