The City of Cape Town is pleased to announce the release of findings from its inaugural city-wide Cape Town Household Survey, conducted between February and October 2024. This landmark initiative represents a significant step forward in the City’s...
Nearly half of South Africa’s treated water never reaches households or businesses. The result isn’t only approximately R7.2 billion in annual deficit municipal revenue – it’s also taps that run dry, strained infrastructure, and communities left...
In Snake Park, the evidence of sickness is written in gold dust. Its source towers over the Soweto neighbourhood: A mine dump, loaded with toxic metals, relics of an era when South Africa produced about a third of the gold ever mined on Earth. The...
When record-breaking rains swept through the coastal city of Durban in South Africa in April 2022, the resulting floods destroyed roads, bridges and homes. Durban’s low-lying, poor neighbourhoods were hardest hit, with residents losing their homes...
