GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa -- At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn't the worst problem ...

The Eastern Cape has 427 schools that still use pit toilets, and the province's education department says at the current pace it could take ten years or more to eradicate them. Considering this and ...

Department of Basic Education finally unveils app to combat school pit toilets, six years after it was promised. On 9 December 2024, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube unveiled the Safe Schools ...

Siviwe Gwarube, Basic Education Minister, admits that she has failed to meet her 31 March 2025 deadline to eradicate all remaining pit toilets at public schools. Siviwe Gwarube, Basic Education ...

Approximately 1.4 million people living in shacks in informal settlements or backyards across the province do not have access to flushing toilets, this according to Census 2011 data. Gauteng has 980 ...

A woman on a family road trip through the Australian outback spent three hours trapped waist-deep in a sewage pit after the rusty floor of a toilet gave way beneath her, dropping her almost two metres ...