Dignity denied as more than 3,000 schools in South Africa still use pit toilets

At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets. Even worse, the three toilets are pit latrines, effectively 10-feet-deep holes in the ground covered by brick structures and basic toilet seats. Seipone Secondary School in Limpopo province is one of more than 3,300 South African schools still using pit toilets, shameful for a country referred to as the most developed in Africa. Human rights groups have been pressuring the government for a decade to get rid of pit toilets in schools, with the issue given added urgency by several tragic cases of young children falling into the pits and drowning.