Sanitation
Sanitation worse than ever after floods hit informal settlement
Residents of Ethembeni in Khayelitsha say they urgently need ten to 15 chemical toilets
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 5 July 2021
Elections 2021: Witzenberg a ‘model municipality’ tarnished by poor waste management and unemployment
Budget choices in Ceres favouring the administrative centre over neighbouring towns littered with potholes and sewage
Text and Photos by Steve Kretzmann
News | 30 June 2021
Gauteng sewage has shown high rates of Covid-19 for three weeks
Other hotspots are Gqeberha and Cape Town
By James Stent
News | 24 June 2021
East London residents say they live in filth
Rubbish strewn and sewage flooded streets are a daily curse in Duncan Village
Brief | 18 June 2021
SAHRC commissioner finds sewage gushing from drains in Cape Town housing project
Residents of Victoria Mxenge demand a permanent solution to sewerage problems
News | 15 June 2021
Elections 2021: Fragile coalitions erode basic services in Nama Khoi municipality
R205 million in irregular expenditure in 2020, R201 million in 2019, R198 million in 2018
News | 10 June 2021
Failure to fix pit latrines in Limpopo schools “outrageous”
Equal Education says there were 472 schools with pit latrines in 2019, and that grew to 515 in 2020
Law | 4 June 2021
Shack dwellers install their own taps and toilets
8,000 families in Khayelitsha find ways to cope without city services
By Vincent Lali
News | 2 June 2021
Conditions are dreadful at Pietermaritzburg morgue
Unclaimed bodies decaying, a terrible stench, no hot water, equipment and vehicles broken
Brief | 31 May 2021