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!