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How South Africa’s ‘pit toilets’ became a damning symbol of the nation’s inequality
Michael had fallen in the toilet, the little boy said. Searching where the boy indicated, the teachers saw Michael’s dead hand visible in the pit of human waste beneath the dilapidated toilets.
Over 400 Eastern Cape schools still rely on unsafe pit toilets
SAHRC’s investigation reveals that over 400 schools in the Eastern Cape are still using unsafe pit toilets, putting the lives ...
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Pit toilets still in 20 schools as Limpopo misses deadline
The Limpopo basic education department plans to allocate R1 billion to replace pit toilets, but progress remains slow.
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They perform an essential health service—in secret
He is a bayakou, the Haitian term for laborers who empty latrines. I took his photo while he was cleaning out a pit toilet that served several families in Port-au-Prince. Despite the ...