About 80 schools in Mpumalanga still use pit toilets despite their ban, but progress is being made toward eradication.
About 80 schools in Mpumalanga still use pit toilets, according to presentations made during a stakeholder meeting in Emalahleni addressing the latrines crisis in schools.
SAHRC said the use of the toilets continued, even though they had been declared degrading, unsafe and banned by the minimum uniform norms and standards for Public School Infrastructure Act of 2013.“The commission has committed to engage the Mpumalanga department of education to have safety measures around the existing pit toilets to avoid and protect pupils’ lives and fundamental human rights enshrined in the constitution,” said Mokonyama.
“The province has only three schools currently solely using pit latrines, meaning these schools do not have other forms of ablution facilities.
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