NEWS: Hundreds of schools have to cope without piped water, electricity and sanitation

 
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has admitted that hundreds of public schools remain
without piped water, electricity and sanitation.

In written reply to a parliamentary question today, Motshekga says of the country’s 23-thousand-742
public schools, 862 do not have access to water, one-thousand-366 don’t have electricity, and 643 have
to make do without sanitation facilities.

TimesLive reports that a table accompanying the reply shows the majority of these schools are in the
Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
-NewsFlash

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