Basic Education Dept commits to eradicating pit toilets in schools by 2025
CAPE TOWN - The Department of Basic Education has committed to eradicating pit latrine toilets at schools by 2025.
In 2013, the department adopted the minimum uniform norms and standards for public school infrastructure which banned pit toilets at schools and created a legal responsibility for the department and provincial departments to eradicate them at schools.In the latest incident, four-year-old Langalam Viki drowned in a pit latrine toilet in Vaalbank in Eastern Cape earlier this month.
However, she clarified that the department was not absolving itself of its responsibility in the matter, but these were questions the department was "interrogating". She said these tragedies serve as a painful reminder that the upgrade to school infrastructure needs to be expedited.
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