The City of Cape Town has "failed to adequately address the appalling unhygienic conditions in Masiphumelele township, which is affecting the health and wellbeing of the residents and causing significant pollution and/or degradation of the environment", wrote the Western Cape Government in a scathing directive issued in July.
This is the second directive this year from the provincial government to the City of Cape Town to clean up Masiphumelele wetlands informal settlement. The Constitution (section 139) empowers a provincial government to issue a directive to a municipality if it has not met its obligations.
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