Pit toilets to be eliminated from schools by 2025

NORTH WEST – Minister of Education Angie Motshekga says pit latrine toilets will be eliminated from schools by 2025. In 2013, the department adopted a policy which banned pit toilets and created a legal responsibility for national and provincial departments to eliminate them at schools. However, it has since missed numerous deadlines. Earlier this month, a four-year-old drowned in a pit toilet in the Eastern Cape.