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Done by: Thandokuhle Manzi
The Study Area • Cato Manor is a working class area located seven kilometers from
Durban's city center.
• It is characterized by an array of housing settings which range from
proper housing to government built houses(RDP houses), informal
settlements to Tin houses (transit camps, provided by the
government).
• Mostly Africans are situated within the area but a few Indians are
present as they have formed shops that locals can purchase from
daily.
• Cato Manor is though separated into three sections which are
Umkhumbane, Cato crest and Wiggins.
Sample spread
Who were interviewed during the sample?
Sample Profile
• The survey was conducted within
a range of informal settlement
dwellers to those with provided
RDP houses-30m square houses
with prepaid meters, flush toilets
and shower
• The majority of respondents are
women whom are mainly house-
heads, pensioners, care takers and
unemployed.
• 67.9% participants are single
• 24.3% Married
Categories (% sample)
Women 71
Men 29 Age (% sample)
20 to 29 22.1
30 to 39 30.7
40 to 49 27.1
50 and above 20.1
There is little mobility as residents relocate
within Cato Manor
• A small proportion of 5% have lived in Cato Manor
there whole lives
• 33.6% have lived in the same household for 11-15
years
• 16.4% have live 6-10 years and 9.3% have lived 1 to
5 years
• 75.8% own their households
• 21.1% live in rented rooms
Reasons for
settling in
Cato Manor (%)
Employment 52.5
RDP houses 32.4
Violence 9.4
Family Issues 5.7
Some residents reside in Cato Manor
due to short distance to city center
Sources of income
• 39% participants depend on
Social Grants as there main
source of income.
• 12% are in the informal
trade sector
• 35% are formally employed
• 65% are unemployed
• 9% have no sources of
income
Total household income (Rands) %
500-1000 27.9
1001-1500 28.6
1500+ 19.3 Participants who didn’t feel comfortable to answer 24.2
Water and Sanitation
Accessibility to drinking water
• 64.2% are satisfied with the quality of water
• 42% have private access to water for domestic usage
• 27.5% use communal taps and 29.7% purchase water from water vendors.
• There seems to be a fare share in the ways that people within the settlement receive water as most have their own taps or buy water from vendors and even use the communal tap
Situation of drinking water in Cato Manor
• 32.6% Cato Manor residents pay between 0-R5 per month.
• Only 2.2% receive free water.
• Different tariffs are charged for domestic use based on the type
of water connection they have and also the amount of water
they use in a 30 day period.
• Households with a full pressure water connection pay a fixed
charge (based on the size of the water meters) if monthly
consumption is greater than 6kl.
• Each unit is allocated 9kl of free basic water for each 30 day
period.
Most individuals in Cato manor are fortunate enough to have
flush toilets though in some areas of the community a large
proportion of people are still using the old fashion system of
digging pits to get rid of their waste
Toilet system used %
No Facility/flying toilets 0.7
Public/shared latrine 24.3
Flush 48.6
Individual pit latrine 26.4
Maintenance of toilets %
Private owner 3.6
Household 33.6
Group of households 9.3
Government 53.6
Sanitation Cont.…
• 52.9% households have access to clean toilets
• Only 0.7% pay to use sanitation infrastructure
• Participants indicated that they preferred flush toilets
Many members of the community believe that proper toilet
services should be provided by the government as it is only a
basic human right and thus this service should be provided
Sewage system used %
Connection to public sewer 38.3
Informal connection to public sewer 33.6
Septic tank/Soak pit 33.6
Pit latrine 21.8
• Of the 21.8% who use the
pit latrine:
-29.6% have it emptied
-33.7% dig new pits
Methods of disposing water and
Drainage over flow Methods of disposing grey water
Disposed grey water %
Poured into an open drainage channel 51.3
Pour it into the road pavement 30
Pour it into the pit latrine 15.8
Flush down the toilet 2.9
What do you do when drainage overflows?
Drainage over flow %
Nothing 35.7 Repairs done by the individual 36.6
Community alias 1.8
Private company 8
Government 17.9
Disposal of Garbage
Garbage collected at a public spot.
Mode of disposing refuse from this household % Dump/ burn it on open land 13.3 Bring it to a public collection point 25.8 Community brings it to a public spot 40.1 City collection system 8.3 Organised private collection 12.5
• The situation of garbage is
worst in informal settlement
surrounding as they do not
have an organized mode of
refuse collection resulting to
the polluting of
Umkhumbane river bank
Health Care
• Cato Manor Community Health Centre is situated at Umkhumbane; it has a total of 16 beds in Medical Outpatient Unit
• Access is made easy by the fact that the facility is situated within the catchments area near informal and formal houses
• It directly serves a population of 70 000 people
Health and Illness
• 56.9% have not experienced
any severe health threats for
the past 6 months.
• Majority 90.3% visited a
government hospital whenever
they fell ill.
• 55.8% do not pay for medical
attention
• 60.2% are satisfied by the
services you received
Education
Education is seen as an important tool to eradicate the
continuous poverty cycle experienced in Cato Manor
• Majority 60% participants have secondary education
• 24.3% have primary education
• An astonishing 7.9% have a tertiary degree or
diploma
• 7.9% have never had any education opportunities
• 71.6% participants pay for their children’s education
Most parents work in low paying jobs therefore it would
be tough for them to send their children to school.
• 80.5% children attend public schools
HOUSING AND RESIDENCY
• 75.8% participates own their houses
• 21.1% are renting rooms
• 53% rent backyard rooms for monthly income
• Majority 61.8% have 3-5 tenants renting backyard rooms
• 62.5 have verbal agreements with their tenants
• 67.1% pay between R700-R800 per month for a backyard
room
• 69.2 renting tenants have not had any increase on there rent
charge since arrival
Electricity used per household
Cato Manor is home to about 93000 people with a future population estimated
to be 170 000
Housing is a major issue which requires immediate attention
• 62% own free hold tittle
• 19.4% been evicted
• RDP Houses have water
leakages
• This results to lack of trust
between the people and the
government
• 59.7% households have
access to electricity
• Some RDP houses do not
have access to electricity
and water.
• Tin house were built as
transit camps- people where
relocated from their 2
bedroom shack to a one
room tin house which they
had to bath, sleep, cook and
eat in.
Security is a major issue in Cato Manor
• In the past 6 months 68.7% participants have been victims of
criminal activities.
• 50% participants feel safe while 49% feel unsafe and 1% are
unsure.
• Participants believe that mob justice is the cure for criminal
activities in Cato Manor as security should be provided by the
police but recently mob justice has been increasing.
Types of crime % Burglary 59 Violent crime 33 Other types of crime 8
Security The youth is of major safety concern of 38.9%
82% prefer neighbourhood action against crime over the police
49.6 participants believe that they need more police enforcement in their settlements
59.7% youth participant in drug and alcohol abuse
Political Participation
• Cato manor has a vibrant political community.
• 86.6% normally register as a voter.
• 87.9% voted the previous year.
• Due to poor service delivery, corruption and that people have
been promised a number things but only a minority benefit
only 68.9% participants will register to vote for the upcoming
elections.
• The majority of the people do not like the councillor, 57%
participants know the councellor’s name.
Political Participation
50% Attend political rallies %
Very Often 46.6
Rarely 53.4
People are loosing hope in the ANC which is their main political party due to certain individuals which exploit powers given to them to cater for the community
Conclusion
• In Cato Manor people are not satisfied with their living
conditions.
• Government promised to keep residents in transit camps for 3
months and some have been living in the same conditions for
over 8 years.
• Residents seem to be satisfied with water, electricity, roads and
street lights which they have been provided with.
• Informal settlements are unhealthy, there is no garbage
collecting services, garbage is disposed in the river.
• People living in slums use pit latrines as main toilet systems.
Conclusion Contd.…..
• The main problem in Cato Manor is of burglary followed by
the high number of youth that participates in drug and alcohol
abuse.
• Political participation has decreased due to insufficient service
delivery and corruption whereby the counselors sell RDP
houses to willing buyers and on going Cato Manor protests.
Thank You!