School board chairperson Jacobus Basson says parents and board members have repeatedly raised the issue with the school, but claim no action has been taken. “I complained to the principal, inspector and education director but nothing was done. Basson says a meeting planned in May between the school board and school management did not take place because most members were absent. School board member Witbooi Ferdinand says the ongoing sanitation crisis has created tension between the school board and the principal. A resident living near the school says dirty sewage water flows from the school into his yard.