30 years of broken promises: UAT condemns government inaction on deadly school pit toilets

30 years of broken promises: UAT condemns government inaction on deadly school pit toilets

National Catholic Board of Education / Catholic Board of Education Meeting with Minister Gwarube

Cullen MackenzieCommunications Lead – Catholic Institute of Education A delegation of the National Catholic Board of Education (NCBE) and Catholic Institute of Education (CIE) met with Minister Gwarube on 9 April to introduce the Catholic education network and discuss issues that continue to affect the schools in the different provinces. The delegation comprised Bishop S Sipuka (NCBE President), Fr H O’Connor (NCBE Chairperson), Mrs J Seland (CI…

Basic Education misses deadline to remove pit toilets in schools

Despite years of promises and repeated targets, South Africa’s Department of Basic Education has once again fallen short of its deadline to eliminate pit toilets in public school structures long deemed unsafe and inhumane. Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube acknowledged this week that the department had failed to meet the 31 March 2025 deadline for total eradication. To date, only 96% of the work has been completed, with 141 schools stil…