But the rest use the toilets in that condition.” “We let nearby learners go home and relieve themselves. The toilets, says school principal Nontathu Mdaka, are all old and dilapidated. Toilets at Mnceba Senior Secondary School have been emptied only once this year.ĭudumayo Senior Secondary School in Mqanduli in the former Transkei has four pit latrine toilets for 491 boys and eight for 563 girls.
“But they are not doing anything to fix them.” Matiwane said the Eastern Cape Department of Education was aware of the problem with the toilets “because the officials visit our school every year”. But this year we have only managed to clean them once because the private contractor charges us R36,000.” “We are supposed to clean them out every term. They are stinking and rotten because it is too expensive to maintain them. The roofs are leaking and doors are broken down.
Four of these toilets are used by teachers. School governing body chair Mpendulo Matiwane says the school, built in the 1970s, has 1,750 learners and 37 toilets. Since 2019 our toilets have been like this.” ”We all pee on the grass next to the toilets because the smell is unbearable and always makes me sick. Many learners no longer use the toilets, says grade 12 learner Bathande Diko.
Sometimes there is no money to get the toilets emptied.Īt Mnceba Senior Secondary School in Ntabankulu, a foul smell greets the visitor to the latrines. At some schools GroundUp visited, teachers send learners home to use the toilet because the toilets at the school are unusable. Learners in nearly 1,500 Eastern Cape schools are still having to use pit toilets, many of them broken, filthy and stinking. Pit latrines at Dudumayo Senior Secondary School are old and dilapidated.
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