This year’s theme for World Toilet Day is Toilets: A Place for Peace, an apt one when considering the state of toilets in ...

Many pit toilets are made from cheap metal, are shoddily built and left uncovered South Africa is to get rid of all pit latrines in state schools within two years after a five-year-old pupil ...

The Sanitation Appropriate for Education initiative was launched six years and has replaced roughly 740 pit toilets per year since.

Her tiny body was at the bottom of a dark, faeces-filled toilet. After her death, South Africa's new President Cyril Ramaphosa called for pit latrines in schools to be eradicated and gave the ...

and that families without any toilet at all said they couldn’t afford to build the type they’d actually use. RICE found that privately constructed pit latrines were four to five times larger ...

flushing toilets. Closer to home, in rural South Africa, thousands grapple with another daunting and degrading challenge: pit latrines. This crisis currently affects more than 500,000 school children.

During a parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube emphasised the government’s commitment to improving school infrastructure, particularly water and ...

Rural Development Partners has urged community members in Kapatavingwe Shaba Village, Traditional Authority Mtwalo in Mzimba District to upgrade from traditional pit latrines to improved sanitary ...

Every November 19, World Toilet Day, a United Nations observance campaign, encourages governments and the private sector to address the global sanitation crisis.

Having a toilet is considered so normal it barely ... villagers seeing the ‘fruits of their labour’ led many to dig pit latrines which are low cost and thus affordable. WHO estimates that ...