O n Saturday, March 22, at around 6:20 pm, Ryan Otieno and David Awinda, both Form Four students at Ramba Boys High School in Siaya County, were standing in front of a pit latrine waiting for ...

covered pit latrines with a slab, and Ecosan, which is not shared with any other household. Amandu recommends that even though each household is required to have its toilet facilities, those without ...

The role of a Manual Pit Emptier involves manually removing human waste from pit latrines, often using basic tools and wearing multiple layers of clothing as protective gear — gear that is ...

A 25-year-old nursery teacher has been arrested for allegedly dumping her newborn baby boy in a 20-foot-deep pit latrine shortly after giving birth over the weekend. The suspect, identified as ...

A 21-year-old bar operator, Charity Ayebazibwe, has been arrested on suspicion of killing her five-month-old child and secretly disposing of the body in a pit latrine. According to the Greater ...

The state of more than 3,500 schools in South Africa forcing children to use pit latrines. Picture: Supplied JOHANNESBURG - Over 540 of the 564 schools that exclusively rely on pit latrines in ...

Operating in the narrow alleys of informal settlements in Nairobi and other cities is a group of people who play a crucial role in improving public health and sanitation. They are the unsung ...

Monday 31 March is the national Department of Basic Education's pit toilet eradication deadline. Minister Siviwe Gwarube announced earlier this month that nearly the entire backlog had been cleared.

However, 91 out of the 141 is already under construction, with 96 percent of the 3,372 schools included in the initial audit having had their pit latrines replaced." she stated. Gwarube admitted ...

Section27 and various civil society organisations say South Africa needs an updated national audit to identify schools left out of the education minister’s pit latrine plan. Minister of Basic ...

The DBE has since at least 2018 set targets for the “eradication” of pit latrines. In February 2025, given her public commitment to eradicate all pit toilets in public schools by April 2025 ...

After her party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), for years slammed the government for delaying the process of eradicating pit latrines, Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says the deadline is not imp ...