Sanitation
Buy or expropriate the land, Marikana shack dwellers tell City
“In a big and beautiful city like Cape Town I don’t expect this kind of life”
Brief | 24 April 2019
“All we want is to see the government collect the rubbish”
Uncollected garbage in refuse bins has lined the streets of Uitenhage for three weeks
Brief | 9 April 2019
“The municipality is not collecting our rubbish, but they threaten to arrest us if we dump”
Residents say Queenstown is left with only one garbage truck
Brief | 4 April 2019
Bobani must deliver on his promises to PE shack dwellers, say protesters
Councillor promises that informal settlements in NU29 will have services in two weeks
Brief | 1 April 2019
Give us water not toilets, say Newcastle residents
Manzana settlement resorts to illegal connections
Brief | 22 March 2019
Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive
“The City will never help us until we protest.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 March 2019
Living beside an open sewer in Port Elizabeth
“Raw sewage pops out of the ground … It eventually overflows into the house”
News | 18 March 2019
Cape Town shack dwellers march for RDP houses
“As long as each family has a tap, a toilet, and a box of electricity, we will be happy.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 March 2019