Sanitation

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

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

Rubbish piles up in Khayelitsha street after dispute

Jafta Masemola Road strewn with litter

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News | 15 April 2016

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

South Africa has a draft sanitation policy, at last

But where are the timeframes?

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Opinion | 4 March 2016

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

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

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

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