GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the ...

the toilets are being implemented in households that were previously using pit latrines and urine diversion toilets. “Part of the technologies being rolled out are the echo twin leach pit ...

Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines – a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say symbolises inequality and government ineptitude. More than 3,300 ...

In 2018, five-year-old Lumka Mketwa drowned in a pit latrine at Luna Primary School in Bizana, in the Eastern Cape. Following her death, Ramaphosa launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education ...

The Witness yesterday reported that the Department of Education is lagging behind in its job to replace the pit latrines at 800 schools that are still using them. Since launching the Sanitation ...

Visitors to some of the more rustic forest preserves in DuPage County still have to use the nearest pit latrine when nature calls. If that sounds like an iffy proposition, relief is in sight.

The school's sole four-stance pit-latrine, built in 2007, is shared by 1,466 pupils, 15 teachers, and locals from the surrounding Irondo trading centre. This situation poses significant health ...