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Dangerous and degrading: pit toilets blight South Africa schools
More than 3,300 of South Africa's 23,000 public schools still use pit latrines, according to government figures released in March.
Refilwe Diloane told AFP of the horror-filled day that her son, Oratile, went off to school and fell into a pit latrine.
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines -- a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say symbolises inequality and government ineptitude.
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