Johannesburg Water is to spend R21 million to install Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) toilets to informal settlements in the city, particularly in the south of Johannesburg, Sandton Chronicle reports.

More than 400 schools in the Eastern Cape still use pit toilets, while Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) latrines fail to accommodate the needs of pupils and expose them to significant safety risks. An ...

In January, during a press conference held by Eastern Cape education MEC Fundile Gade and Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube, it was announced that the province was “100 or so” schools away from ...

As construction teams enter the last two months before the deadline to replace traditional pit toilets at schools with safer infrastructure, the South African Human Rights Commission has raised ...