Pit toilet incidents expose failures in oversight, infrastructure delivery
Progress under the Safe programme Kathija Yassim, education leadership professor at the University of Johannesburg, said that under the department of basic education’s sanitation appropriate for education (Safe) programme, the original 2018 audit identified 3 372 schools with unsafe pit toilets.
Government maintains backlog has been cleared Last year, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube informed parliament the Safe initiative had eradicated over 93% of identified pit toilets in public schools across the country.
Pupils have already fallen into pit toilets this year – a grim reminder that unsafe sanitation still stalks schools, even as the department of basic education pledged full eradication by March 2025.
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