Abstract
M.Ed.
This study is an attempt to ascertain what teachers' and students' views are on sanitation and water supply at Ngwaritsane High School, in Bushbuckridge. This is an exploratory study of Ngwaritsane High School teachers' and students' experience of inadequate sanitation facilities.
Pietersen (1996) reported that bad sanitation practices were costly and have resulted in many deaths. He maintained that South Africa has a record of human suffering and deaths caused by the unhygienic disposal of human excreta, and that diseases such as bilharzia, typhoid, cholera and dysentry have been caused by poor sanitation practices. There is a definite need to address the state of inadequate sanitation facilities in rural areas such as Bushbuckridge.
Against the background of this brief orientation, this study proposes to examine the context of poor sanitation and water supply, and to contribute to the debate on how to improve the health status of the teachers and the students alike.