Pressure grows for department to eradicate pit toilets
More than 100,000 pupils in the province still use the dangerous pit latrines.
Source: dispatchlive.co.za
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More than 100,000 Eastern Cape pupils still use pit toilets
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.
Source: dispatchlive.co.za
EC Education MEC admits 427 schools with pit latrines in province
EC education department made little progress in addressing the pit toilet crisis in schools, with only 21 toilets removed in the past year
Source: dailymaverick.co.za
Kouga municipality gets green light to build solar plant
The Kouga municipality has been given the green light to construct a 20MW solar plant — the first step in breaking free from dependence on Eskom.
Source: heraldlive.co.za
Sadtu up in arms over pending centralisation of school nutrition budget
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.
Source: dispatchlive.co.za