Motheo Brodie | Fixing school toilets in Limpopo - missed deadlines, flushed promises
The continued presence of pit toilets at schools is unlawful, unsafe and undignified. Our courts have now repeatedly declared that the persistence of these structures is a violation of multiple constitutionally entrenched rights for pupils, including the right to basic education.
In its judgment, the court remarked that “it is not business as usual. The replacement of pit toilets is a national emergency and must be treated accordingly”. The court went further to declare the first plan unconstitutional and ordered the LDoE to submit a revised detailed plan that also provided interim measures to address the schools’ urgent sanitation needs and their immediate safety risks.pit toilets on site would be provided with appropriate sanitation infrastructure by March 2023.
Before the case could be launched, Section 27 received yet another undertaking from the LDoE. This time, the LDoE undertook to provide its client schools and all other Priority one schools with mobile toilets by October 31 2022. The LDoE assured Section 27 that funds had been transferred to the affected districts and that processes were under way to procure rental services for the outstanding mobile toilets. Disappointingly, the LDoE has failed to meet the deadline once more.
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