The portable toilets of nearly 900 families in Ndlovini informal settlement, Khayelitsha, have not been cleaned for over a month. When GroundUp visited, filthy portable toilets, some covered with ...

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 2014 death of Michael Komape in a school pit toilet near Polokwane, in Limpopo province, shocked South Africa. The fact that more than two decades after the end of apartheid thousands of ...