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Asivikelane 17 June 2020 Press Statement

Asivikelane reiterates its call for government to take the lead in ensuring access to clean sanitation facilities in informal settlement communities as the country observes its Covid-19 peak. Every two weeks since the beginning of the lockdown Asivikelane has been...

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Asivikelane results no 7: Please clean our toilets!

The provision of sanitation in metro informal settlements has not improved and remains at crisis levels everywhere except Ekurhuleni. This situation should be addressed urgently in order to slow down the exponential spread of Covid-19 in the informal settlements of...

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Water is life campaign

Why is the #MetsiKeBophelo (Water Is Life) campaign necessary? Access to water is a constitutional right in South Africa, not a privilege. According to research[i], 1 in 3 people in South Africa don’t have access to safe or reliable water. That’s about 20 million...

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Asivikelane: Week 6 Results

This week's results show wonderful progress in some metros, like eThekwini becoming the first metro to reach an orange light for the distribution of soap and handsanitiser and Ekurhuleni remaining the only metro to get...

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Asivikelane: Week 5 Results

This week, we note with excitement that the National Treasury has confirmed that metros can use the unspent R2.4billion for water, sanitation and refuse removal in informal settlements! Can we now expect more progress now that metro budgets were boosted from...

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