More than 400 schools in the Eastern Cape still use pit toilets, while Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) latrines fail to accommodate the needs of pupils and expose them to significant safety risks.

An investigation by the South African Human Rights Commission found that traditional pit toilets remain a grim reality in 427 ...

As construction teams enter the last two months before the deadline to replace traditional pit toilets at schools with safer ...

The investigation found that over 400 schools still use unsafe pit toilets, while many so-called replacements—Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) latrines—fail to meet child safety standards. The Commission ...

The department said yesterday it would need close to a R1 billion to ensure no schools have pit latrines in ... a revised and detailed plan for the eradication of pit toilets and to replace ...

This plan must be communicated to affected communities ... a minimum of 6 kilolitres of water per household per month, a ventilated improved pit latrine or toilet connected to a septic tank or to ...

ventilated improved pit or biogas latrine, pit latrine with slab, pit latrine without slab or open pit, twin pit or composting toilet, dry toilet and no facility or uses open space or field. We also ...

Pupils in various government-aided primary schools in Budaka District risk contracting sanitation-related diseases due to the shortage of pit-latrines in most schools. The district has 59 ...

said the district is only able to provide 20 pit-latrine stances per year due to resource constraints. According to health experts, poor toilet practices can result in the spread of preventable ...

Damp Squid has created an Unreal Engine 5-powered toilet generator to ensure players will never find a duplicated latrine in ...

Unimproved toilet facilities include open pits or pit latrines without slabs, bucket toilets, hanging latrines and bushes or fields. In Tana River (59.9 percent), Bomet (59.8 percent), Samburu (56 ...