by Intern | Jun 28, 2021 | Blog, Weekly Covid19 Updates
Maintenance doesn’t help if there are no taps and toilets to start with. As Asivikelane has been reporting, many informal settlements across the country do not have access to taps and toilets at all. Any improvement of maintenance should be supplemented by...
by Intern | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog, Weekly Covid19 Updates
Ekurhuleni has been the best performing metro since Asivikelane started a year ago. But even so, its traffic lights are not consistently green and there are many informal settlements that experience persistent water, sanitation and refuse removal problems. But this...
by Intern | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Weekly Covid19 Updates
On the surface, Asivikelane #17 traffic lights appear bad. But if you take the time to look closely, you will see many green shoots of service delivery improvement starting to sprout. New toilets were built, and taps were installed in Buffalo City. Taps were repaired,...
by Intern | May 13, 2021 | Blog, Weekly Covid19 Updates
None of the metros’ 2021/22 budgets set aside funds specifically for the maintenance of informal settlement infrastructure. The result is that heavily used taps and toilets are not fixed when they break. Metro budgets also show no growth in allocations for the ad hoc...
by Intern | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog, Weekly Covid19 Updates
Asivikelane has conducted interviews with informal settlement residents in 13 municipalities. The purpose of these interviews was to find answers to the following questions since the inception of the #Asivikelane campaign and its impact on the lives of informal...