Mabila School toilets - a failure
Learners at a primary school in Vhembe, Limpopo are still using pit toilets. The department of education blames a failed plan to merge schools.
While Mabila Primary School learners in Vhembe remains without proper toilets, the Limpopo education department has traced the problem to a failed schools merger.
Learners at the school are forced to use four dilapidated pit toilets, two for girls and two for boys. Last month
Health-e Newsreported on how these conditions prevail, despite building materials delivered at the school three years ago.
The provincial department said that plans to build a new sanitation block at the rural school were abandoned due to a proposal to merge Mabila Primary School with another primary school. Mabila Primary School has about 200 learners from grades R to seven.