The Equality Court will hear an application by the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) against the City of Cape Town over its alleged failure to fulfil the right of access to sanitation for poor, Black and marginalised residents in informal settlements...
Diepsloot has become the site for the realisation of basic human rights through the collaboration of design solutions and ideas from international teams in the Community Plumbing Challenge 2016 running from 9 to 15 July. Having working, clean and...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) in Limpopo reports that it has made considerable progress in delivery of water and sanitation services in the region. According to Chief Director of the Limpopo department Lesiba Tloubatla, the...
The North West Department of Local Government and Human Settlements has embarked on search for alternative sanitation technology that will replace the current ventilated improved pit toilets currently being used. Most of the province is on located...
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has denied that the City of Cape Town is not spending enough on sanitation after she was served with a petition ahead of her 2016/17 budget speech last week. Approximately 100 members of the Social Justice...
Rural communities in two municipalities in the Ehlanzeni District will soon be beneficiaries of newly constructed sanitation facilities. The Department of Water and Sanitation is currently constructing 712 double structure toilets in villages in...
The Ormonde Primary School Governing Body (SGB) said they will only consider bringing back all the pupils once the education department delivers on all its promises. Speaking to News24, SGB chairperson Teddy Nair said they were not satisfied with...
Thousands of people visiting Mtubatuba in KwaZulu-Natal have to either “hold it in” or pay service stations to use their facilities as the town faces an embarrassing shortage of toilets. The town only has two working public toilets that are partly...
By Liesl Frankson The theme for World Toilet Day 2014 is Equality and Dignity, and this year the organisers aim to highlight the link between gender-based violence and sanitation. The United Nations General Assembly, in 2013, designated 19 November...
