Section27 has charged that the education department has no “coherent” plan to eradicate pit toilets in SA's schools.
“The tragedy that befell the Komape family is, however, not an isolated incident,” the organisation said.Direct the member of the executive council in the Limpopo education department to remedy the shortcomings of the defendants’ plan to ensure that it is constitutionally compliant and file a revised plan in both physical and electronic format with the court within 45 days.
This is despite the department’s assertion that it has made “great” strides in addressing the sanitation needs at schools where pit latrines are used. “We have improved the standard of reporting and the progress is satisfactory. Underperforming implementing agents have been warned that there will be consequences for poor delivery,” said Mweli Mathanzima, the deputy director in the department.“We are returning to court because we believe the plan provided by government is unconstitutional and unreasonable, as education authorities have said that pit toilets in Limpopo will only become a thing of the past in 2030,” argued Section27.
“There is currently no coherent plan before the court for pit toilet eradication. The effect of this is to frustrate this court’s powers of supervisory jurisdiction to scrutinise the constitutionality of government’s plan to eradicate pit toilets in the Limpopo province in line with the constitutional obligations enumerated in Komape 1,” Section27 contended.
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