Section 27 says the plans the Limpopo department has provided for getting rid of pit toilets are not clear and offer no timelines
New, ultra-modern toilets are hygienic – and they save water
Innovative sanitation technologies will create thousands of vital jobs
It will develop and scale the pathogen-killing, water-smart, reinvented toilet in South Africa
The Supreme Court of Appeal this week heard argument on why the law, as it now stands, is inadequate to compensate the Komape family
With their submissions to the commission of inquiry into state capture, two civil society groups have set out to root out corruption in education
The stipend for the community work programme is R780 a month — but they want the basic minimum wage of R3 500 a month that some workers now get
Polly Boshielo, the Limpopo MEC for education, has committed to eliminating pit toilets in the province by the end of this financial year
In the public-school system, more than 11 000 schools have been provided with flush toilets since 1994
Poor facilities rob pupils and teachers of basic rights and also lead to absenteeism and drop-outs
A three-year-old boy has died after allegedly falling into a pit toilet at his aunt’s home in Limpopo
During an interview, Eusebius McKaiser questioned Angie Motshekga on history as a compulsory subject, the teacher-pupil ratio and violence in schools
It’s a setback for the family, but it will help the campaign to end pit toilets in schools
The judge dismissed their R2-million claim for constitutional damages, saying justice would be better served if all pupils had safe toilets
Five-year-old Michael died in 2014 after falling into a pit latrine at Mehlodumela Primary School where he was a Grade R pupil
Streamlined delivery chains are needed, as is the ability to construct safe infrastructure
Some schools in the Eastern Cape, which have no sanitation at all, would be addressed with urgency
The education minister has convened an urgent meeting to plot the eradication of unsafe toilets following the death of five-year-old Lumka Mkhethwa
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Five-year-old Viwe Jali fell into the toilet at the Luna Primary School in Bizana on Tuesday
These were the state social worker’s words to a tearful mother after her five-year-old’s death
The state’s lawyer says that school sanitation can’t rest solely at the doorstep of education authorities
‘Little Michael’s story is the ultimate expression of what state capture means, even as our president denies that it is real’
Education authorities face R1.5bn worth of claims, with Limpopo being the worst culprit.
Children at 49% of these schools have no sanitation facilities or totally inadequate ones
Mtundini Saphepha, a caretaker at a primary school, recounts how he was stuck in excreta when a latrine collapsed.
The state said they should not have known that the toilet Michael Komape drowned in was unsafe for use.