Sanitation
Freedom Day in Philippi: gunshots, robberies and piles of rubbish
Crime has free rein in one of Cape Town’s poorest suburbs
Feature | 27 April 2023
More than 30 families share one pit toilet at this Durban informal settlement
Residents say eThekwini Municipality has failed to fix most of the toilets in the area which are blocked and broken
Brief | 26 April 2023
300 toilets were built on this site seven years ago. Now at last the promised houses may be built around them
Families are still living in shacks next to their broken toilets
Brief | 25 April 2023
Thousands of households without running water for three weeks in eThekwini
Municipality has still not repaired damage caused by an electrical fire at the Ntuzuma Pump Station
Brief | 19 April 2023
Limpopo protesters demand mobile toilets for schools with pit latrines
One school has three pit toilets for 400 learners
Brief | 12 April 2023
66,000 learners in Limpopo schools are still using pit latrines
But the numbers are falling at last
News | 11 April 2023
Children are dying from izinyoka electricity while Tongaat families wait to be housed
Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 6 April 2023
Human waste litters the ground in Mountain View - and City of Tshwane has no plans to fix it anytime soon
The City says families living there will be moved when it finds land
News | 5 April 2023
Cleaners in a Durban township say they use their own money to fix broken toilets
The eThekwini Municipality says it will investigate claims that janitors don’t have materials and that most of the toilets in the settlement are broken
Brief | 4 April 2023