Schools with basic pit toilets only
Basic pit toilets are illegal in South African schools and should have been eradicated by 31 November 2016. This datasets shows a provincial breakdown of the number of schools with basic pit toilets only. The data is sourced from the Education Facility Management System (EFMS) and its predecessor, the National Education Infrastructure Management System (NEIMS).
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The data
8 rows, 11 columns.
- date Date
- Date report released 2014-10-23 – 2024-07-03
- ec Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in the Eastern Cape 174 – 3204
- kzn Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in KwaZulu-Natal 88 – 2244
- lp Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in Limpopo 25 – 1020
- nw Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in North West 0 – 273
- mp Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in Mpumalanga 0 – 416
- nc Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in the Northern Cape 0 – 12
- wc Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in the Western Cape 0 – 0
- fs Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in the Free State 0 – 268
- gp Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in Gauteng 0 – 1
- sa Number
- Number of public schools with pit toilets as their only form of sanitation in South Africa (total) 287 – 7438
Latest rows
| date | ec | kzn | lp | nw | mp | nc | wc | fs | gp | sa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-03 | 174 | 88 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 287 |
| 2023-08-21 | 506 | 148 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 728 |
| 2021-04-12 | 944 | 901 | 219 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 2130 |
| 2019-08-01 | 1587 | 1272 | 472 | 145 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 0 | 3710 |
| 2018-01-17 | 1426 | 1337 | 916 | 127 | 392 | 0 | 0 | 160 | 0 | 4358 |
| 2016-06-15 | 1893 | 1380 | 941 | 146 | 392 | 10 | 0 | 223 | 1 | 4986 |
| 2015-05-12 | 2885 | 2042 | 1001 | 222 | 399 | 12 | 0 | 221 | 1 | 6783 |
| 2014-10-23 | 3204 | 2244 | 1020 | 273 | 416 | 12 | 0 | 268 | 1 | 7438 |
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