Stinky toilets for primary school
OurHealth - Itlotliseng Primary School learners in Tseki village, Phuthaditjhaba (Qwa-Qwa) in the Free State have to every day deal with dirty toilets and unreliable access to water.
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De Lille admits janitor services stink
Mayor Patricia de Lille has admitted that the City'€™s janitorial services in informal services needed to be jacked up and her office has taken over the monitoring of this service.
City janitor rollout stinks – SJC
CAPE TOWN - A landmark daily janitorial service for communal toilets in the City'€™s informal settlements - launched with great fanfare in May by Mayor Patricia de Lille - has come to a grinding halt.
Health risks facing urban population
A Medical Research Council (MRC) study warns that as more people move into the cities, their health challenges will become dire. The community of Hospital Hill, in Johannesburg, is a case in point. More than 90 % of the residents live in urban poverty and are unemployed.
Water and sanitation undermines health efforts
South African health officials have failed to advocate for more free water while efforts to improve sanitation have been undermined by lack of funds, resulting in high levels of disease and mortality mainly among the poor.
All need to play part in climate change
INTRO: It is predicted that the effects of climate change will cause serious health impacts on society. According to researchers, everyone needs to take responsibility to change their behaviour so that the impacts of climate change can be lessened.
City of Jo’€™burg aims for safer environment
The city of Jo'€™burg says climate change is no longer a possibility, but a reality. It has urged communities to partner with it to protect the environment and to alleviate the impacts of climate change
Access to water and sanitation a human right – UN
The U.N. General Assembly has declared access to safe, clean drinking water and sanitation to be a "'human right' in a resolution that more than 40 countries including the United States didn't support. South Africa did support it.
Cape Town fails toilet test
Most of the sanitation technologies provided to informal settlements in Cape Town do not meet the standards of basic sanitation. This is either due to the higher household: toilet ratios, the technology itself, the condition and location of the sanitation infrastructure, or the way in which it is serviced.
A – Z of toilets
Several stories plot the toilet saga in Khayelitsha including a timeline, the A to Z of toilet types and the questions sent to the mayor.
Deathly effects of no toilets
Diarrhoea, death, disability. Anso Thom uncovers the indignity of living without sanitation.
RR Section: Almost no toilets
RR Section is flanked by Lansdowne Road and Mew Way, both major arteries through the sprawling township of Khayelitsha. Ramshackle shacks are tightly knit with eroded and sodden dirt roads and footpaths cutting between the homes with a massive uninhabitable marsh right in the middle.
Progress in access to safe drinking-water: Sanitation needs greater efforts
With 87% of the world'€™s population or approximately 5.9 billion people using safe drinking-water sources, the world is on track to meet or even exceed the drinking-water target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the new WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report titled: "Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water '€“2010 Update Report," released today.
SA has a weighty problem
South Africa is sitting on a malnutrition time bomb '€“ which has seen people either being severely over- or underweight, top nutrition expert Professor Demetre Labadarios has warned.
Tracking the MDGs
While South Africa has made some progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mental health and poverty remain major challenges, according to public hearings on the MDGs hosted by the SA Human Rights Commission.