Limpopo schools face sanitation crisis, as deadlines are missed and R1 billion is needed to replace pit toilets.
Twenty Limpopo schools are still using pit toilets after the provincial basic education department missed two deadlines to eradicate them.
“We have just over R970 million set aside to deal with the remaining inappropriate sanitation,” department spokesperson Mike Maringa said yesterday.Maringa said his department was working with the Development Bank of South Africa, the National Education Collaboration Trust, the Independent Development Trust and the Limpopo department of public works, roads and infrastructure to replace the old toilets.Earlier, the department argued that the eradication process could only be completed in 2030.
The department said that the sanitation infrastructure projects would likely only start between 2026 and 2028 and be completed between 2028 and 2030.In a scathing judgment at that time, Muller said that the department’s projection that it would only be able to replace the pit toilets with more modern sanitation over a period of 14 years was “unreasonable and unconstitutional”.“Even though they do not participate in tenders, they still demanded 30% of the work on projects.
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