A Changing World, an Unchanged Injustice: Demanding innovation that delivers dignity and safe toilets
Learners still face deadly pit toilets as government delays, neglect and budget cuts undermine safe sanitation.
pit toilets in schools
Pit toilets replaced by substandard ‘improved’ pit toilets in EC schools
The ventilated improved pit latrines built in Eastern Cape schools do not meet safety standards.
Bilharzia infections plague Limpopo schools
Poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water is suspected to be behind the outbreak in Limpopo.
Pit toilets in schools a constant worry for Limpopo parents
Defying court orders and self-imposed deadlines, the Limpopo education department has failed to eradicate pit toilets at schools in the province.
The disintegrating classrooms of King William’s Town school
Half of the school’s prefab buildings are dilapidated, with rats and bees resident and the wind passing through.
Dilapidated schools impair teaching and learning in the Eastern Cape
According to the department of education in the Eastern Cape, the improvement of facilities at almost half of the schools in the province is delayed while about a fifth have no electricity.
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