Sanitation

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Sewerage water spilling out onto Port Alfred taxi rank

Drivers fed-up with municipality’s broken promises

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Brief | 30 January 2017

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Harare flood victims say state has abandoned them

Houses, toilets and school have have collapsed and residents fear homelessness and disease

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News | 23 January 2017

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Rubbish uncollected in Port Elizabeth township

“It has never been bad like this” says Motherwell resident

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News | 20 January 2017

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Rubbish piles up in Masiphumelele after tender expires

New contractors will only start in February

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News | 13 January 2017

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Residents in Khayelitsha barricade homes against overflowing toilets

City says it has tried unsuccessfully for a week to clear the blockage

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News | 14 December 2016

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No answers from municipality to residents’ complaints of leaking sewerage pipes

Duncan Village residents say their houses are wet and smelly

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News | 24 November 2016

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Fired workers block access to public toilets

Cleaners in Uitenhage say they have been "tricked"

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News | 14 November 2016

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Communities blame each other for housing stalemate

Problem started when formal home owners didn’t want shacks near them

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News | 11 November 2016

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Toilet breakdown in Masiphumelele

“It's like my house is a toilet” says resident

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News | 8 November 2016

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East London residents complain of stinking water

Community members in Mzamomhle say municipality ignorestheir complaints

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Brief | 4 November 2016

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Man with epilepsy nurses family

Both his aunt and stepfather have cancer

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News | 3 November 2016

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Toilet pushed over with woman inside

Khayelitsha residents clean up area and ask SJC to take court action

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Brief | 2 November 2016

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Stabbed on his way to the toilet, Khayelitsha man is now in a wheelchair

Sinethemba Mfaca spends his days trapped in his one-roomed shack

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News | 1 November 2016

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Khayelitsha residents relieve themselves next to N2 highway

Communal toilets blocked for months

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News | 31 October 2016

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Island battles to get City to clean toilets

Residents fear drinking water will mix with faeces and make them sick

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News | 27 October 2016

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No toilets, no water, no shelter at teeming taxi rank

We have to beg for our basic needs as human beings, says trader

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News | 26 October 2016