Sanitation

Man dives deep into sewage to stop pollution flowing into Zandvlei

Commercial diver Troy Figenschou fixed a leaking pipe at the Raapkraal pump station in Cape Town

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News | 28 September 2022

Government has snubbed us here in Gomora, says 72-year-old Samson Maleka

No toilets, no water, no electricity in Tshwane settlement after 18 years

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News | 28 September 2022

We want more toilets and better access to water, say Centurion shack dwellers

But City of Tshwane says it has already provided what it can with its budget

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Brief | 21 September 2022

Ndabeni protesters block busy road

City of Cape Town says it can’t provide services to shack dwellers living on private land

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News | 20 September 2022

Gqeberha taxi driver dies after crashing into a protest barricade

Protest called off after mayor promises chemical toilets

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News | 16 September 2022

1,000 people share two toilets at this informal settlement

M19 blocked in both directions by eThekwini protesters

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Brief | 6 September 2022

Delays in cleaners’ contracts leave toilets dirty and blocked

Nearly 400 households at Kliprand informal settlement in Gqeberha share these toilets

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News | 29 August 2022

Mobile showers for homeless people: “mother of water” bus launched

“I just cried underneath the water,” says homeless woman after first hot shower in ages

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News | 26 August 2022

Iconic women’s housing project of the 1990s, today awash in sewage

Residents of Victoria Mxenge Housing Development have taken the City of Cape Town to the Ombudsman after three years of overflowing sewers

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News | 22 August 2022

Free State drinking water polluted by sewage

Winburg one of many towns in the province with unsafe drinking water

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News | 3 August 2022

Women volunteers clean up dumps in Delft after a dead body was found

“We want to stay in a clean environment”

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News | 29 July 2022

Pigs swim in the sewage outside my house, says protester

Gqeberha protesters block Old Uitenhage Road demanding changes to their living conditions

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News | 28 July 2022

Dunoon residents hope years of “tip-toeing over sewage” will end

City of Cape Town is installing new pipes to alleviate “overburdened” sewerage system

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Brief | 25 July 2022

Teachers and learners at this school use a field as a toilet

Fort Beaufort school has 570 learners and 15 teachers and toilets don’t work

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Brief | 21 July 2022

Ramaphosa’s river clean-up boycotted

“I can’t hail Mandela Day when my children don’t have a future,” says Gqeberha resident

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Brief | 19 July 2022

Hundreds of people share two toilets in Diepsloot

Toilets broken nine years ago in Extension 1 were never fixed

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Brief | 18 July 2022