Sanitation

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Meet the people who collect our garbage

Some residents frantically run out in satin nighties determined to stop the truck so they can empty their bin for the week

Text by Ashleigh Furlong. Photos by Masixole Feni.

Photo Essay | 25 April 2017

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No cleaning materials or protective clothing for Duncan Village janitors

Workers use their salaries to buy cleaning products

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News | 21 April 2017

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Gugulethu toilet cleaning jobs dispute resolved

Services resume as new contracts signed

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Brief | 19 April 2017

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The taxi driver who keeps his own street clean

Dunoon resident Yamkela Ncume has taken it upon himself to clear up refuse

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News | 18 April 2017

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Toilets overflow as Buffalo City municipality fails to ensure tender is implemented

“It is sad the municipality does not care about us”

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News | 13 April 2017

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Port Alfred municipality breaks promises on toilets

Spokesperson claims not to know about broken taxi rank toilets reported in January

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News | 6 April 2017

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Battle for toilet cleaning jobs in Gugulethu

Residents stop janitors emptying toilets in protest

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News | 29 March 2017

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PE families live with burst sewer pipe for three years

Municipality fails to keep promises

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News | 28 March 2017

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Our toilets haven’t worked for four years, say Mbekweni shack dwellers

Municipality blames vandalism for broken toilets

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News | 10 March 2017

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Children at daycare centre live with leaking sewer

Port Alfred residents say problem reported to municipality five months ago

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Brief | 7 March 2017

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Toilet cleaners lack vaccinations and safety clothes in Philippi

Workers fear losing their jobs if they complain to management

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News | 2 March 2017

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Grandma under siege by garbage

80-year-old endures ten years of unbearable smells, flies and rubbish

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News | 27 February 2017

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Europe’s rubbish cleared in Nyanga

Mounds of garbage uncollected since December removed after residents agree to use City database

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Brief | 22 February 2017

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Masiphumelele residents march to Fish Hoek to demand better living conditions

Protesters call on municipality to provide electricity and sanitation to everyone living in the township’s informal settlement

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News | 14 February 2017

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Maggots in baby’s mouth as uncollected garbage piles up

A dispute over refuse removal services in early December has left the informal settlement of Europe near Nyanga with growing mounds of rubbish

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News | 13 February 2017

Composite photos showing a field in Motherwell before and after the municipality cleaned it

PE municipality clears hazardous rubbish dumps

Garbage in Motherwell removed following GroundUp report

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Brief | 3 February 2017