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, ...

During his first week at school, five-year-old Michael Komape drowned in a pit ... South Africa's new President Cyril Ramaphosa called for pit latrines in schools to be eradicated and gave the ...