Nearly five years ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa launched a R6.8bn Sanitation Appropriate for Education (Safe) programme. It is a public-private initiative that targets schools where sanitation is inadequate or unsafe.
According to the Department of Basic Education’s audit, nearly 3 898 schools across the country were reported to have inappropriate sanitation. It was discovered that about 70% of rural schools still use pit toilets, and KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and
