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...
The City of Cape Town is in the process of providing the Social Justice Coalition with details of the Mshengu contract to provide and service chemical toilets in informal settlements in the City of Cape Town.This is according to a statement by the...
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...
Cape Town is revising a pioneering programme that was meant to maintain and keep toilets clean and provide jobs. A pioneering programme to maintain and keep toilets clean in Khayelitsha has failed. As a result, each blockage diminishes the number...
Nationwide water and sanitation hearings will start this week, the SA Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. The meetings will be public and will start in Mpumalanga on Wednesday and continue in all provinces until November, the...
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...
