Limpopo MEC for education Polly Boshielo says her department will provide about 200 schools with appropriate sanitation facilities this financial year, but the Democratic Alliance (DA) calls these numbers tantamount to an insult.
The party cited the latest statistics from the National Education Infrastructure Management System, revealing that a total of 472 schools still had pit toilets as the only means of sanitation in Limpopo.
In her previous financial year budget speech in July last year, Boshielo said: “In this financial year, the department will eradicate pit latrines in all the 507 schools and replace them with proper sanitation facilities.Now the DA is vowing to take her on, accusing her of being inconsistent. Smalle said the party was very concerned about how schools would manage to uphold hygiene standards when they reopened, in particular hand-washing and regular toilet cleaning with disinfectant as statistics proved the province did not have appropriate sanitation facilities.
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