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Bucket toilets and human ­excrement running in the streets is not unusual in some of the ­country’s municipalities.

​Women should design public toilets

Consulting women about their needs would go a long way towards ensuring their health and safety

India – lack of toilets a breeding ground for disease and death

With half of India’s population without access to toilets, people are paying a high price for the slow pace of change in improving sanitation.

Conditions at the Nkosibomvu school are dire. Pupils have no access to running water or toilets and the buildings are falling apart.

Foundations are laid to tackle the mud schools debacle

Lawyers and activists say the Eastern Cape education department must make public its schedule of repairs to schools.

Toilet activist on Cape metro council

Toilet activist on Cape metro council

Cape Town’s toilet saga will come under the spotlight again after Andile Lili moves into the metro council as a proportional representative.

Put party poopers on the spot

Put party poopers on the spot

The open toilet debacle, dirty as it is, creates an opportunity for voters. The <i>M&G</i> weighs in.

Toilet tenders stink

Toilet tenders stink

Fresh allegations of tender corruption in the unenclosed toilets saga have been levelled against Moqhaka Municipality officials in the Free State.

Put party poopers on the spot

The toilet election

The municipal election campaign is in the toilet, literally — the delivery of the most basic service of all has come to dominate the polls.

Toilet trouble leaves Rammulotsi on the edge of its seat

Toilet trouble leaves Rammulotsi on the edge of its seat

A week before the elections, the toilet scandal gripping SA has thrust a small town into the national spotlight, leaving residents flustered and wary.

ANC: We knew about mayor’s links to open toilets

The ANC says Moqhaka mayor Mantebu Mokgosi had told them her husband’s company was a subcontractor in the Viljoenskroon open toilet scandal.