# Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, has called on communities to protect school infrastructure, saying every classroom, sanitation facility, and school preserved is an investment in the community’s future. All three-thousand-372 schools identified in the 2018 Sanitation Appropriate for Education initiative have now been provided with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities. Gwarube says the successful completion of the backlog does not suggest that every pit toilet in the country has been eradicated. She says some schools had developed new sanitation challenges or were not included in the original 2018 audit.
Minister Gwarube says the 2018 SAFE pit toilet backlog has been cleared