07 Mar 2019

Letlhakane Senior Secondary School faces shortage of water due to poor supply from the village, Basic education minister, Mr Bagalatia Arone, has said.

Responding to a question in Parliament from Member of Parliament for Boteti East MP, the minister said it was true that the school went without municipal water supply for days or weeks.

During such shortages, he said the ministry took it upon itself to supply water to the school using bowers if Water Utilities Corporation could not assist. “My ministry has not abandoned the idea of drilling boreholes in some schools. We have recently drilled boreholes in Goodhope and as resources permit, we shall continue to assist more schools,” he said.

Furthermore, Minister Arone pointed out that the ministry would engage the appropriate ministry to address the issue of water in Letlhakane village.

MP Sethomo Lelatisitswe had asked the minister to update the House on the water status at Letlhakane Senior Secondary School and further state whether it was acceptable that the school could go for days to weeks without water and what happened during such situations as the school had boarding facilities and water borne toilets and students needed to be fed.

Mr Lelatisitswe also wanted the minister to state if the ministry had abandoned the idea of drilling boreholes in schools, when the problem would be attended to and the cost to government and if this was a new problem and why it had taken long to be attended. Ends