Basic Education department to implement urgent sanitation audit following pit toilet death
22 March 2018
Cape Town – Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Thursday committed to abide by the Presidency's instructions for an audit of school sanitation facilities within three months.
She was addressing the media after calling all education MECs, education department heads and infrastructure officials to attend an urgent Council of Education Ministers (CEM) meeting in Kempton Park, Gauteng earlier in the day.
The nation reacted with horror when five-year-old Lumka Mketwa drowned in a pit toilet at Luna Primary School in Bizana in the Eastern Cape, more than a week ago.
Motshekga said the loss of an innocent young child was a "truly painful experience" and had once again drawn their attention to ongoing sanitation challenges.