Sanitation
Overflowing toilets, piles of rubbish and empty water tanks plague Gqeberha shack dwellers
Yet the municipality claims the area is cleaned and serviced regularly
Brief | 10 November 2021
New data shows how badly polluted Cape Town’s vleis are
Unacceptable levels of E. coli persist in Zeekoevlei, Zandvlei, Rietvlei, and Milnerton lagoon
By Liezl Human
News | 8 November 2021
Corruption or incompetence? Rural Eastern Cape housing projects delayed for years
And a company that was paid R1.5 billion in tenders left households in Cofimvaba each with a pile of concrete slabs instead of toilets
News | 5 November 2021
Cape Town’s polluted vleis costing jobs
Sewage spills are damaging local businesses and international tourism
News | 29 October 2021
Families living in Tsolo forest say they won’t be voting on Monday
The settlement of about 1,000 households has almost no basic services
News | 28 October 2021
Local recyclers win global award
Two billion people around the globe don’t have their waste collected, and only 10% of waste is recycled in South Africa.
Video | 27 October 2021
Municipality in breach of court order to clear dumpsites
Informal dumping sites were meant to have been cleaned up weeks ago
Brief | 26 October 2021
Thousands struggle daily to get water in Mthatha
Municipal supplied jojo tanks were last filled in August in Joe Slovo Extension
News | 18 October 2021
Education department promises to fix “falling apart” school, but parents are sceptical
Community has little confidence left in the Limpopo education department which has to provide decent sanitation to nearly 1,500 schools
Brief | 15 October 2021