Anyone who has watched the film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ will undoubtedly remember a scene in the movie where the main character jumps from an elevated latrine into the filthy water below in a desperate attempt to see his favourite Bollywood movie...
The Kisumu Water and Sewage Company has received a €1.2 million grant from the African Water Facility to support an innovative project that will provide sanitation services for residents in the Manyatta settlement in Kisumu, Kenya. It will also...
South African municipalities have improved their financial reporting. This is the view of the chief executive of South Africa’s Local Government Association (SALGA). Local government bodies are required to submit regular Section 71 reports to the...
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...
Blue plastic port-a-loos were overturned and set alight on Lansdowne Road in Khayelitsha earlier this week by residents of SST informal settlement who were protesting over unacceptable living conditions. The group of about 100 protesters spilled...
