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Pit latrines in schools

Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future

13th April 2025 Ndivhuwo Mukwevho 0

The government has again failed to reach the deadline to eradicate pit latrines at schools.

Pit toilets replaced by substandard ‘improved’ pit toilets in EC schools

10th February 2025 Chwayita Dinginto 0

The ventilated improved pit latrines built in Eastern Cape schools do not meet safety standards.

Only one pit toilet for learners at Eastern Cape school

29th July 2020 Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 0

Despite government’s repeated promises to upgrade sanitation facilities in South African schools, pit toilets are all that is available to 200 learners at the school, and only one is usable.

Women in informal settlements complain of dirty and unsafe toilets

19th November 2019 Mzi Velapi Tandeka Bafo 0

The Water Services Act 108 of 1997 provides for the right to a basic water supply and sanitation service but the lived experiences of women in informal settlements of Khayelitsha tell how just using the toilet can be dangerous.

MEC promises to build toilets for Bizana school

21st March 2018 Mbulelo Sisulu 0

The Eastern Cape Education MEC recently visited the school where a Grade R learner drowned in a pit-latrine and promised to build toilets.

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