Thousands of schools in South Africa suffered through using pit toilets, exposing children to unhygienic and dangerous facilities daily. Six years after a campaign was started to rid the country ...

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 ...

While access to proper sanitation is a basic human right enshrined in South Africa's constitution, many pupils have no choice but to use pit toilets. Analysts say it is partly a legacy of ...