More than seven years after schoolboy Michael Komape drowned in a pit latrine at his school in Limpopo, the state has failed to comply with a court order to eradicate unsafe and unhygienic toilets. | GroundUp_News
the Limpopo Department of Education to eradicate unsafe and unhygienic toilets at rural schools and provide the court with a report explaining how it intends to do so by the end of July 2018.
SECTION27 argued that while the state in 2018 had provided the court with a plan to eradicate inappropriate sanitation, and a progress report in May 2020, this fell short of its obligations in terms of the court order"and in terms of their constitutional and statutory obligations to provide safe and adequate school sanitation facilities to learners attending public schools across Limpopo".
The plan provided by the state had identified 1 658 schools"with sanitation needs", of which 1 489 had pit toilets on school premises. No indication was provided as to the criteria used in identifying these"sanitation needs", SECTION27 claimed. Prior to the hearing, the state provided a more detailed outline of its infrastructure programme regarding sanitation and pit toilets. Phaswane said there was no need for a"special task team" to oversee its implementation, as Equal Education argued, because the state was busy rolling out the plan.
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