The movement of people to major urban centres and mushrooming of shanty towns is throttling the government’s best efforts to provide proper sanitation for all its people, says Deputy Minister of Human Settlements Zoe Kota-Fredericks. Speaking at...
South Africa is facing a sanitation crisis aggravated by rapid urbanisation, a world toilet summit has heard. The chairwoman of Parliament’s human settlements portfolio committee, Beauty Dambuza, said last Tuesday there were huge disparities...
Seattle — Bill Gates today announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge—an effort to develop “next-generation” toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t...
The Human Settlement Department has revealed that the North West government has failed to spend R57 million earmarked for sanitation, despite a dire shortage of toilets in that province. Addressing the portfolio committee on human settlements...
