1,500 schools in the province still have pit toilets and some schools can’t afford to get them emptied.
JOHANNESBURG - Learners in nearly 1,500 Eastern Cape schools are still having to use pit toilets, many of them broken, filthy and stinking. At some schools GroundUp visited, teachers send learners home to use the toilet because the toilets at the school are unusable. Sometimes there is no money to get the toilets emptied.
“We are supposed to clean them out every term. But this year we have only managed to clean them once because the private contractor charges us R36,000.” “The municipality charges us R12,000 every time it cleans them out. This year we have cleaned them twice and they are stinking. The department has not given us funds this term.”Grade 12 learner Asiphe Manyosi said: “Our toilets are disgusting. They make you want to vomit. We pee while we are standing by stretching our legs over the filthy pit toilets. When we poo we have to cover the toilet seat with paper first to avoid the maggots on the seat.
“Toilets and doors are broken down. The toilets are old and they need to be built from scratch. The toilets are stinking and are always overcrowded during the break. To ease the burden we let the learners who live nearby go home and relieve themselves.”
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