The 2021 National Education Infrastructure Management System (NEIMS) report revealed a total of 5 167 schools (21.1%) were still forced to use pit toilets, while 5 836 (25%) of schools do not have ...

With over 48 million Nigerians still practising open defecation and a nationwide shortage of toilets, some public health physicians doubt the country’s ability to achieve open defecation-free status ...

Equal Education has dismissed Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube’s self-imposed deadline for eradicating pit toilets at schools as not legally binding. X: @DBE_SA Gwarube has pledged to ...

This is after an NGO built 22 flush toilets at the school, replacing six pit toilets that 700 learners had been using for years. The Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, announced that the ...

Research shows how the climate crisis is impacting household sanitation access and practices in rural Cambodia.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has set the target of March to eradicate pit toilets at all schools across the country. X: @DBE_SA On Wednesday, Gwarube visited two schools in the Eastern ...

Residents of Diepsloot were shocked and outraged after an infant was found abandoned in a pit toilet in Extension 11 on Saturday. Quick action by the community and local authorities led to the rescue ...

The first oversight was at a farm school, Willows Primary School, that 115 learners attend from Gr R to Gr 7. The school still has functional pit toilets for both staff and learners. In 2019 a learner ...

Turkana, Mandera and Migori counties have the highest number of residents who practice open defecation in fields, forests, ...