Sanitation
After a month of no refuse collection, Dunoon residents march to municipal offices
Subcouncil 3 manager says area is too volatile to render services
Brief | 7 August 2023
Khayelitsha families rally to help bury three children who died after playing on dump site
City of Cape Town and SAPS are investigating the deaths
News | 25 July 2023
Protesters force city councillors to walk through sewage
Kariega residents divert Mandela Day convoy
News | 24 July 2023
Over 1,000 shack dwellers protest: “We are tired of living in squalor”
City of Cape Town accused of “persistent failure to collect rubbish ” in informal settlements
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 July 2023
Soweto informal settlement abandoned by government
After 33 years, just five working toilets and four working taps for hundreds of households in Nomzamo Park
By Chris Gilili
News | 21 July 2023
Furious residents confront Kariega officials after child drowns in sewage
“You only come to us when our children die,” deputy mayor is told
Brief | 17 July 2023
Makhanda commuters ‘use the bush’ because taxi rank toilets have been closed for years
Councillor says she has asked the municipality for more public toilets in town
Brief | 30 June 2023
Rubbish in Delft overwhelms City of Cape Town response
City says it spends R300-million a year cleaning up illegal dumps but can’t make headway without community support
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 30 June 2023
Under water for two weeks: Cape Town’s Covid informal settlement
Residents fear disease could break out from the human waste in the water
News | 26 June 2023