Cape Town's dirty secret

Slideshow | Cape Town's dirty secret

25 Apr 2013 16:20
M&G photographer David Harisson focuses on the sanitation issue in Khayelitsha, which robs the community of their dignity and health.
The buckets don't stop here: Toilet trials and tribulations in the Cape

The buckets don't stop here: Toilet trials and tribulations in the Cape

26 Apr 2013 00:00 - David Harrison
For the past nine months photographer David Harrison has been documenting sanitation issues in the informal settlements around Khayelitsha.
The right to dignity flushed away

The right to dignity flushed away

28 Mar 2013 00:00 - Faranaaz Veriava: COMMENT
The state is working to fix sanitation in Limpopo's schools. But will it fix policy, too?
Human settlement chaos blocks sanitation delivery

Human settlement chaos blocks sanitation delivery

01 Feb 2013 00:00 - Sipho Kings
A damning and long-awaited report into sanitation has been quietly published on the human settlement department's website.
Sanitation plan goes down the drain in Khayelitsha

Sanitation plan goes down the drain in Khayelitsha

19 Oct 2012 00:00 - Sipho Kings
Cape Town is revising a pioneering programme that was meant to maintain and keep toilets clean and provide jobs.
Sanitisers score hand over fist

Sanitisers score hand over fist

25 May 2012 11:56 - Laura Barton
The popularity of saniters has as much to do with health as fashion and the jury is out over their efficacy, writes Laura Barton.
Drowning in waste

Drowning in waste

23 Sep 2011 10:45 - Sipho Kings McDermott
Since the late 1990s the government has rolled out huge sanitation projects as part of the reconstruction and development programme.
The great unblocking of Beira

The great unblocking of Beira

19 Mar 2010 11:14 - Sean Christie
Sean Christie headed to Mozambique to follow up rumours of Portuguese sabotage. What he found was an impressive clean up of Beira's disused sewers.