President Ramaphosa to launch Schools Sanitation Project

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday, 14 August 2018, officially launch the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) Initiative at the Sheraton Hotel, Pretoria. 

SAFE is a Department of Basic Education-led initiative in partnership with the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which responds to the significant sanitation challenges facing some of the country’s poorest schools. 

The initiative follows the President’s call for plans to eradicate unsafe schools and ablution facilities, and for an audit and plans to deal with all learning facilities with unsafe structures. 

As the President committed in the State of the Nation Address in February 2018, the plan to eliminate unsafe ablution facilities at schools will entail civil society consultation and participation. 

The breakfast launch will seek to mobilise resources and support from various sectors of society including big business and non-governmental organisations around the enormous task of alleviating infrastructure backlogs, primarily for schools serving the poor. 

Details of the event are as follows: 

Date: Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Time: 07h00
Venue: The Sheraton Hotel, Corner Stanza Bopape Street, Arcadia, Pretoria 

Members of the media are requested to complete previously circulated accreditation forms and send these to khala.t@dbe.gov.za by no later than 17h00 on Sunday 12 August 2018. Members of the media who are not accredited will not be allowed in the venue.


Media enquiries: Khusela Diko, Spokesperson to the President, on 072 854 5707 or Elijah Mhlanga (083 580 8275) or Troy Martens (079 899 3070).

Issued by: The Presidency
Pretoria