Pit toilets | There should be no pit latrines in 2024

JOHANNESBURG - Amnesty International has strongly condemned what it calls the failures of the Department of Basic Education, and that no child should die in pit toilets because of their inaction.

Three-year-old Unecebo Mboteni, died last week after allegedly drowning in a pit latrine at a crèche in East London.

DISCUSSION | 3-year-old dies after falling into pit latrine

This has been a longstanding problem in South Africa, which refuses to go away.

Genevieve Quintal, from Amnesty International South Africa, discussed this with eNCA.