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Xhuka Shorty and his family are San, an indigenous group of people in southern Africa. Eight years ago, he and 16 members of his family were evicted from the farmland where they had lived and worked as laborers for generations.

In 2012, a UN special rapporteur said Namibia’s sanitation deficit was due to a ‘lack of a common vision’ and an ‘absence of effective coordination among the different ministries’. In 2023, these are still the biggest obstacles to improving sanitation. In this three-part series, journalists Fre...

Failure to fix pit latrines in Limpopo schools “outrageous” Equal Education says there were 472 schools with pit latrines in 2019, and that grew to 515 in 2020 People protested in 2017 outside the High Court in Polokwane in support of the Komape family after their five-year-old son drowned in a pit latrine. Archive photo: Ciaran Ryan Equal Education (EE) has approached the Limpopo High Court to appoint a “special master” to oversee the eradication of pit latrines at ...

Equal Education says there were 472 schools with pit latrines in 2019, and that grew to 515 in 2020.