Sanitation

Photo of marchers in Cape Town

Mayor handed sanitation petition on eve of budget speech

SJC members march in Cape Town

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News | 24 May 2016

Photo of removable communal toilets in township

Does the SJC understand Cape Town’s budget? You be the judge

Response to City's claim that activists don't understand the budget

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Opinion | 24 May 2016

Photo of two women pretending to use toilets

Khayelitsha residents in stand-off with City

3,000 residents hand in submissions on budget

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News | 29 April 2016

Photo of sewage leaking out of block of flats

Sewage leaks from Langa’s apartment blocks

Hundreds of people are living in abject conditions in City-maintained flats

Text by Naib Mian. Photos by Masixole Feni.

News | 26 April 2016

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Quest for water in an Eastern Cape village

In March I visited a village in Pondoland in the Eastern Cape for two weeks as part of GroundUp's investigation into the province's dagga trade.

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Photo Essay | 22 April 2016

Photo of women hanging washing on a fence

Rubbish piles up in Khayelitsha street after dispute

Jafta Masemola Road strewn with litter

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News | 15 April 2016

Photo of portable toilets

Whose voices really matter in the City of Cape Town’s budget?

Most of the city’s residents are excluded from the budget process

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Opinion | 15 April 2016

Photo of boy quite far from camera defecating with cars driving by on the N2

South Africa has a draft sanitation policy, at last

But where are the timeframes?

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Opinion | 4 March 2016

Photo of burning debris across Vanguard Drive

Why protesters have been blocking Vanguard Drive

Residents and employees of toilet cleaning company Silver Solution are angry that their complaints have not been resolved

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News | 25 February 2016

Photo of a boy at the roadside with piles of rubbish

Rubbish piles up in Enkanini for nearly two weeks

Residents in the informal settlement in Khayelitsha have been forced to live with overflowing drains and rubbish

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News | 5 February 2016

Photo of large amount of rubbish outside the church.

Churches plead with residents to stop dumping rubbish

Illegal dumping costs Cape Town R350 million a year

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News | 28 January 2016

Photo of man throwing faeces.

Barcelona residents throw poo onto N2

A dispute over who should clean the informal settlement’s toilets is escalating.

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News | 21 January 2016

A photo of a woman and child in front of toilets in Lindelani Park.

Lindelani residents have to clean communal toilets

No cleaning services since September

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News | 20 January 2016

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No agreement on who will clean Barcelona’s toilets

The informal settlement's toilets are overflowing and unusable.

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News | 15 January 2016

The forgotten people of the Western Cape

Klipheuwel is an informal settlement about 10km north of Durbanville. It seldom gets any news coverage. GroundUp's photographer, Masixole Feni, spent time in the area.

07 January 2016

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This school has 300 students and no running water

Mahlubini Junior Secondary School near Cofimvaba has close to 300 students, no electricity in the classrooms and no running water.

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 1 December 2015