Stories of people and places:

Where you live matters

When we fail to deliver proper waste removal services to the country’s most underserved communities; when we locate landfills next to people’s homes, the message we are sending is that some people and neighbourhoods are disposable – even if our waste is not. We cannot blame the victim. We need a waste management strategy that is just.

The waste troubles of an average township

The waste troubles of an average township

Saulsville is a township on the western extremes of the Tshwane metropolitan municipality. It was established under the apartheid government’s Group Areas Act to house Tsonga and Venda-speaking migrants with permits to work in the city of Pretoria. Saulsville’s black...

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Living next to a dump

Living next to a dump

Somerset East is a small town in the Eastern Cape Karoo. Here, as in many other towns around the country, apartheid planning is on full display, with the town centre in the valley, and its ‘workers’ in peripheral townships (although work is now hard to come by). By...

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