As the Eastern Cape started its school year on Wednesday, thousands of pupils across the province continued to have to use pit latrine toilets.The backlog in eradicating the rudimentary latrines, which are unhygienic and often dangerous, particularly for young pupils, has been slated by opposition parties.
The SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) in the Eastern Cape and education minister Angie Motshekga could be heading for a collision over the mooted centralisation of the national school nutrition programme budget, which it says is likely to be reintroduced in the province in 2024.