
Lack of toilets at Limpopo schools a reality and indefinite future
The government has again failed to reach the deadline to eradicate pit latrines at schools.
The government has again failed to reach the deadline to eradicate pit latrines at schools.
Poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water is suspected to be behind the outbreak in Limpopo.
Defying court orders and self-imposed deadlines, the Limpopo education department has failed to eradicate pit toilets at schools in the province.
Despite government’s repeated promises to upgrade sanitation facilities in South African schools, pit toilets are all that is available to 200 learners at the school, and only one is usable.
The Eastern Cape Education MEC recently visited the school where a Grade R learner drowned in a pit-latrine and promised to build toilets.