Sanitation

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Port Alfred municipality breaks promises on toilets

Spokesperson claims not to know about broken taxi rank toilets reported in January

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News | 6 April 2017

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Battle for toilet cleaning jobs in Gugulethu

Residents stop janitors emptying toilets in protest

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News | 29 March 2017

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PE families live with burst sewer pipe for three years

Municipality fails to keep promises

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News | 28 March 2017

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Our toilets haven’t worked for four years, say Mbekweni shack dwellers

Municipality blames vandalism for broken toilets

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News | 10 March 2017

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Children at daycare centre live with leaking sewer

Port Alfred residents say problem reported to municipality five months ago

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Brief | 7 March 2017

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Toilet cleaners lack vaccinations and safety clothes in Philippi

Workers fear losing their jobs if they complain to management

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News | 2 March 2017

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Grandma under siege by garbage

80-year-old endures ten years of unbearable smells, flies and rubbish

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News | 27 February 2017

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Europe’s rubbish cleared in Nyanga

Mounds of garbage uncollected since December removed after residents agree to use City database

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Brief | 22 February 2017

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Masiphumelele residents march to Fish Hoek to demand better living conditions

Protesters call on municipality to provide electricity and sanitation to everyone living in the township’s informal settlement

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News | 14 February 2017