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How South Africa’s ‘pit latrines’ became a cursed symbol of the nation’s inequality

Pit latrines ‘a stark depiction of inequality in South Africa’, says Amnesty International – Simon Townsley/The Telegraph Michael Komape’s mother took her other child on her back and ran to the primary school as soon as the officials called. Teachers said his son was missing. The five-year-old was nowhere to be found until a young… Read More »