The National Lotteries Commission seems to have paid up to twice as much as necessary to replace pit toilets at schools in Limpopo – with the money going to a little-known Gauteng-based contractor with no experience in construction.
The figures quoted by the NLC may not be correct. But the Lotteries Commission were not the only ones battling to find out how many schools still had the dreaded pit latrines.took the Limpopo education department to court on behalf of the parents of five-year-old Michael Komape, who drowned after falling into a dilapidated pit latrine at his school.
SECTION27 decided to do its own investigation and collected data on sanitation from 86 schools in Limpopo between May and July 2018. It found that nearly half of the schools had unlawful pit toilets. But only 22 of the schools it analysed were on the department’s August 2018 pit toilet list. “That means 19 schools with pit toilets have been left off the list,” says SECTION27 on itsIt may all sound like a tussle about figures, but the consequences are dire.
The report, compiled by Zibsifusion, named eight schools that were supposed to receive new toilets. Toilets at two of the schools, Tibanefontein Primary and Ncheleleng Secondary, were ceremoniously handed over by the NLC. The “handing over” of toilets at a third school, Waterval High, turned into an embarrassment when it became clear that no new toilets had been built. Instead, contractors had merely done minor refurbishments to existing toilets. The handover was cancelled.
The two schools where Zibsifusion built ablution blocks, Tibanefontein Primary and Ncheleleng Secondary, both made use of Enviro Loo systems. At both schools, two blocks containing four toilets each were constructed. The building for the boys’ toilets also included an evaporative four-bowl urinal. Taking this into account, La Trobe said the average “per seat” cost of recent school projects came in at between R56,000 and R77,000 per seat.
The only way to try and determine the number of seats was to use the little information available and do a guestimate.
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