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Asivikelane 12 Results: Metros could budget more for informal settlement services.
While national government reduced conditional grants to some metros, they all benefited from the R11 billion increase in equitable share funding in...
Asivikelane no.11 Results: The next Covid-19 wave will start in informal settlements.
Up to 45% of informal settlement residents contracted the coronavirus in the first wave. This is not surprising because they are sharing dirty taps...
Asivikelane results no 8: Women are scared to use shared taps and toilets.
This week a new question about public lighting was added on the report with a focus on gender. Two thirds of Asivikelane participants are women and most of them say that there is not enough public...
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...
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...