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Pit toilets at a Limpopo school. (Andrew Hlongwane/Sowetan/Gallo Images)
BONGEKILE MACUPE

Limpopo’s number of pit toilets don’t add up

​Polly Boshielo, the Limpopo MEC for education, has committed to eliminating pit toilets in the province by the end of this financial year

  • Bongekile Macupe
3 min read
According to the Department of Basic Education’s audit, about 3 898 schools across the country were reported to have inappropriate sanitation. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

#WorldToiletDay: Give pupils dignity and safety by providing toilets

Poor facilities rob pupils and teachers of basic rights and also lead to absenteeism and drop-outs

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
‘Ghosn is likely the most successful foreign chairman in Japan,’ said Kosuke Sato, a senior economist at the Japan Research Institute. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Equal Education: Ramaphosa’s #SAFEInitiative is ‘ironic’

The civil society organisation has called the initiative ‘ironic’ in light of government’s stalling of infrastructure delivery

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read
According to the Department of Basic Education’s audit, about 3 898 schools across the country were reported to have inappropriate sanitation. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images)
LIMPOPO

Another child drowns in a pit toilet, this time at home

A three-year-old boy has died after allegedly falling into a pit toilet at his aunt’s home in Limpopo

  • Jeanette Chabalala
2 min read