The Eastern Cape government has announced plans to address the issue of mud schools and pit latrines. The province has 1 412 schools built of inappropriate materials including mud, asbestos, planks, corrugated iron and sticks
The province, according to the department of education, has 1 412 schools built of inappropriate materials including mud, asbestos, planks, corrugated iron and sticks.
“Mud schools continue to be an eyesore in some of the villages. Government has committed to intensify the rollout of the Asidi programme and ensure that the Sanitation Appropriate for Education programme for appropriate sanitation facilities is speedily implemented in the province.” “The premier is out of touch with the infrastructure problem at schools in the province. In the previous financial year the budget for school infrastructure was underspent by R100 million,” said Cassim.
“In the previous financial year they were supposed to eradicate 149 of these pit toilets and they only did 44. And in the current financial year which ends next month, they were supposed to eradicate 262 by the end of last year. But by the completion date they had not even started or employed a single implementing agent.”
He said at the heart of the province’s education programme for this term was the implementation of the Education System Transformation Plan.
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