For the past three months Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Social Justice Coalition have sought information from the City of Cape Town Supply Chain Management (SCM) about all active tenders for the provision of sanitation and refuse collection services to informal settlements. On 20 October 2011 SCM supplied us with copies of the tenderers’ submissions for
MUNICIPAL SECRECY NOT ON: Citizens have a right to information
The lived experience of people in informal settlements is a dehumanising defiance of the constitutional and moral obligations that require the state to treat every person as having equal dignity and rights. Uncollected rubbish, floating faeces and the ever-present threat of crime are constants in the lives of people such as Nomlungisi Qezo and her










