Sanitation

Dunoon residents empty toilets on N7

Poo protest comes after residents reject new toilet contractor

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News | 17 August 2020

Township residents clean their streets after chasing out contractor

City of Cape Town says residents cannot dictate who gets work offered by Expanded Public Works Programme

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Brief | 14 August 2020

People empty poo buckets in road as toilet dispute festers

Dunoon’s communal toilets have not been cleaned since 3 August

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News | 12 August 2020

Sewage is flowing like a river here, say Philippi protesters

City of Cape Town says cable theft at pump station to blame

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News | 6 August 2020

Musina sewage plant has been leaking for five years, say residents

Streams of filthy water flow through fields and past a school

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Brief | 6 August 2020

Toilets overflow for a month as City drains clog up

City blames blockages on “misuse of the sewer system”

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Dunoon residents threaten to empty toilets on N7

Petitioners tell City of Cape Town to dump contractor

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News | 29 July 2020

Protest over toilets turns violent in Uitenhage

Project to build toilets for Bobani Village was halted by internal politics

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Brief | 28 July 2020

Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics

Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee

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Brief | 27 July 2020

“Our toilets have been blocked since 2016” says Khayelitsha resident

Enkanini informal settlement gives the City a week to respond to demands for toilets and water

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Brief | 23 July 2020

Municipality “deep cleans” shacks but there is no evidence this is useful against Covid-19

“We want residents to be relocated to better places in order for us to defeat this virus” says community leader

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News | 23 July 2020

Fix our schools, learners tell Eastern Cape Education Department

Equal Education has given the department two weeks to attend to schools with water and sanitation problems

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News | 22 July 2020

Marikana residents cry out for flood relief

City says it has received over 60,000 requests for plastic sheeting from the area

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Brief | 20 July 2020

Clinic without proper electricity and running water for ten months

Staff say they make daily trips to collect water from the nearest facility about 10km away

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News | 17 July 2020

“There are toilets but we cannot use them”

Mobile toilets lie on the ground for weeks in PE informal settlement

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Brief | 15 July 2020

Two years later: still no new toilets at Cofimvaba school

508 schools still without any sanitation in the Eastern Cape, says Equal Education

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News | 14 July 2020