The Eastern Cape has ‘100 or so’ schools with pit latrines left to fix before this sad chapter in the province’s education ...

During his first week at school, five-year-old Michael Komape drowned in a pit latrine in northern South Africa. That day in January 2014 will be one his father James Komape will never forget.

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 ...

As the city’s footprint and population expanded, temples, circuses, amphitheaters, forums and baths began to proliferate. So did public latrines. If nature called, you were pretty much covered, ...

Police in Nansana, in Wakiso district have rescued a newborn baby who had been dumped in a pit latrine by her mother. The baby was dumped in the latrine by Moreen Ainembabazi,18 who works as a house ...

Residents mull over the body of Janet Muhonja, who succumbed to injuries in the process of being rescued after a pit latrine collapsed at Wasambu village, Vihiga County, on May 9, 2016.