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.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Under pressure from education activists and the courts, South Africa’s government announced on Tuesday that it would tackle a crippling sanitation backlog in schools, where ...

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — 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 ...

The filtration system for the four flush toilets in a shantytown in Johannesburg’s Soweto township is surrounded by a steel fence crowned with barbed wire. A year ago, a thief tried to steal this ...

What are the problems with how toilets are flushed in Cape Town? The first problem is that the city uses clean, treated drinking water for toilet flushing. Generally, 20%-30% of the city’s drinkable ...

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