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Significant strides in school sanitation
The Star
|August 18, 2025
A TOTAL of 97% of schools identified in 2018 for the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) programme have been provided with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities as of July, Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube said.
“The Department of Basic Education has advised that, as of 1 July, out of the total 3 372 schools identified for intervention through the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) Initiative, a total of 3 254 schools (97%) had been provided with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities,” Gwarube said.
She was responding to IFP MP Sipho-sethu Ngcobo when he asked about the progress made in eradicating pit latrines at public schools in each province since the launch of the SAFE initiative in 2018.
Gwarube's responses showed that the breakdown of schools in the Eastern Cape was 1 361, KwaZulu-Natal 1 329, Limpopo 447, Mpumalanga 103, and the Free State 14.
The minister said 73 of the remaining 118 pit toilet projects, identified under the SAFE initiative, were planned for completion in the 2025/26 financial year.
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