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Pressure grows for department to eradicate pit toilets

More than 100,000 pupils in the province still use the dangerous pit latrines.

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Eradicating pit latrines: Minister has 60 days to submit time frames

Pupils at thousands of schools in South Africa still use pit latrines. Parliament has given the Department of Basic Education 60 days to outline how it will eradicate the dangerous structures.

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WATCH: School toilets of shame and terror!

But for Mzansi, this is a bitter reminder that the country still has close to 1000 schools without proper toilets.

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NPO is leading the charge to flush pit latrines out of SA schools

The nonprofit organisation Breadline Africa, in partnership with South African investment banker Mark Barnes, is tackling the problem head-on with a campaign to raise R156-million to replace 4,000 pit toilets at 240 schools in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape.

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DA: John Steenhuisen, Address by DA leader, during a Live Address to the Nation on the historic multi-party National Convention this coming week (14/08/23)

DA: John Steenhuisen, Address by DA leader, during a Live Address to the Nation on the historic multi-party National Convention this coming week (14/08/23)
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