By: Natasha Archary
The body of a 4-year old has been found in a school pit toilet in Glen Grey, Eastern Cape on Wednesday, 07 March.
This after the girl’s mother went to the school to enquire about her daughter’s whereabouts when she didn’t return from school.
Circumstances surrounding the child’s demise are still being investigated, but her body was recovered from one of the school’s pit toilets.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has blamed the ANC for the child’s death, saying the dangers of pit toilets have been raised previously but still 5 167 schools are forced to use these unsafe toilets.
“This tragic death at the hands of an uncaring ANC government would have been prevented if the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, had not wasted time in eradicating all pit toilets from schools.
The ANC government has the blood of this child on its hands. They have had ample opportunity to eradicate these unsafe toilets over the years, government’s failure to upgrade school infrastructure makes them complicit in this child’s untimely death.”
The DA in a statement
According to a National Education Infrastructure Management System (NEIMS) report, 5 167 school still use pit toilets, 5 836 schools don’t have a reliable water supply.
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