Sanitation

Kraaifontein residents protest about living conditions

Lists of demands handed over to City of Cape Town, Western Cape health department and SAPS

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Brief | 28 August 2025

Informal settlement residents destroy sewage pump station

They threaten to prevent repairs to the station until their electricity is restored

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Brief | 26 August 2025

Municipalities are ruining Hartbeespoort Dam

Pollution and sewage are harming the aquatic environment

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Photo Essay | 26 August 2025

Mamelodi shack dwellers given stands a decade ago still live without services

Skierlik lacks waste collection, sewage, electricity and potable water

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News | 14 August 2025

More than 80 to a class at Elim High

The school has over 2,000 learners and has been asking for additional classrooms since 2007

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Brief | 7 August 2025

People have to relieve themselves in open fields in this Eastern Cape town

Centane does not have enough working public toilets

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News | 19 July 2025

Human waste flows through the streets of Hout Bay

Residents call for the City to urgently fix the problem to prevent “a health emergency”

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News | 15 July 2025

People live in squalor as City of Joburg’s development plans gather dust

Over 700 plots in Zandspruit, intended for residents to build their own homes, have stood vacant for six years.

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Brief | 11 July 2025

Two boys drown at abandoned sewer project

Oxidation ponds in Centane, Eastern Cape, were abandoned 25 years ago after objections by the traditional authority and local residents

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Brief | 9 July 2025