In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare (population 3,000,000), a man relieves himself in the dirt next to his tin shack, holding his nose to ward off the stench of a nearby overflowing latrine. In Ramallah (population 300,000) in the occupied...
The movement of people to major urban centres and mushrooming of shanty towns is throttling the government’s best efforts to provide proper sanitation for all its people, says Deputy Minister of Human Settlements Zoe Kota-Fredericks. Speaking at...
In order to provide proper sanitation facilities in parts of South Africa, NGO Sulabh International will construct 200 toilets and a training school around Mahatma Gandhi’s Phoenix settlement in Durban. “Sulabh International will open a...
The 12th World Toilet Summit, a first for Africa, yesterday called for toilets to become an “aspirational product” that all communities would want to fight for. The founder of the World Toilet Organisation, Jack Sim, told delegates to...
