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FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS

Pit toilet death

Section 27: Ramaphosa’s stimulus package far from good enough

By Mia Lindeque

On Friday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that more funding will go to sanitation at schools, with the goal to complete more than a thousand sanitation...

  • President Jacob Zuma met with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa (right), Ministers and Deputy Ministers at scheduled routine meetings of Cabinet committees on 7 February 2018. Picture: GCIS.

    [OPINION] The South African state’s lack of care

    Judith February says at the heart of our society lies a lack of accountability defined by a disdain by those in power for the people they are meant to serve.

    1346 days ago
  • FILE: President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the launch the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) Initiative at the Sheraton Hotel, Pretoria. Picture: GCIS.

    Ramaphosa launches school sanitation initiative to remove pit toilets

    The Basic Education Department says most of the affected schools are in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal.

    1375 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) initiative in Pretoria on 14 August 2018. Picture: Thando Kubheka/EWN

    Ramaphosa: Govt, private sector in partnership to eradicate pit toilets

    President Ramaphosa says the safe toilets initiative is overdue in the country following the deaths of pupils at schools.

    1375 days ago
  • Three-year-old Omari Monono has been laid to rest. Picture: @desiree.vanderwalt.73/Facebook.com.

    Limpopo child who drowned in pit toilet laid to rest

    Omari Monono died after falling into the pit last week.

    1406 days ago
  • FILE: A pit toilet. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    DA: Family of pit toilet victim needs urgent counselling

    The network in Limpopo says the mother of a three-year-old boy who drowned in a pit toilet is in urgent need of trauma counselling.

    1409 days ago
  • "As the Development Bank of Southern Africa, with the R3.5 billion you could’ve eradicated pit toilets..." - Bruce Whitfield  [Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN]

    DA Women's Network visits family of Limpopo boy who drowned in pit toilet

    Monono Omari died after falling into a pit latrine while relieving himself last Wednesday.

    1409 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    Section27 shocked at death of child after falling into Limpopo pit toilet

    Three-year-old Monono Omari died in the crude toilet at a relative’s home in Moletji on Wednesday.

    1415 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    Child (3) dies after falling into pit toilet in Limpopo

    It’s understood the incident occurred on Wednesday while the child was visiting a relative’s home in Moletjie Ditenteng.

    1415 days ago
  • "As the Development Bank of Southern Africa, with the R3.5 billion you could’ve eradicated pit toilets..." - Bruce Whitfield  [Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN]

    EC school to get 8 toilets in wake of pit latrine death

    Several weeks ago, five-year-old Lumka Mketwa drowned in a pit latrine.

    1455 days ago
  • FILE: A pit toilet. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    Education Dept planning to remove all pit toilets from schools

    Judge Gerrit Muller ordered the department to provide proper sanitation facilities at all the province’s government-run schools.

    1488 days ago
  • FILE: Michael Komape died after falling into a pit toilet at school in 2014. Picture: Twitter/@Corruption_SA.

    Section 27 criticises Michael Komape court ruling

    On Monday, the court dismissed a R3 million claim to compensate the Komape family.

    1488 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied.

    Michael Komape's family distraught after (no) compensation ruling

    Rosina & James Komape were too distraught to speak to the media following Judge Gerrit Muller's ruling that they won’t be compensated for the shock and trauma of losing their son.

    1488 days ago
  • Michael Komape died after falling into a pit toilet at school in 2014. Picture: Twitter/@Corruption_SA

    Judgment expected to be handed down in Michael Komape case

    The family with the help of advocacy group Section 27 is suing government for damages.

    1489 days ago
  • "As the Development Bank of Southern Africa, with the R3.5 billion you could’ve eradicated pit toilets..." - Bruce Whitfield  [Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN]

    Equal Education urges Education Dept to get rid of pit toilets

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga held an urgent meeting with education officials to assess the sanitation facilities at all schools.

    1518 days ago
  • FILE: Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    [LISTEN] Lesufi: Sanitation is dignity

    Talk Radio 702 host Stephen Grootes speaks to Panyaza Lesufi, MEC for Education in Gauteng, about eradicating pit toilets at Gauteng schools.

    1519 days ago
  • FILE: Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Treasury intervention needed to eradicate pit toilets, says Motshekga

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says that her department’s budget alone will not be able to fund the project.

    1520 days ago
  • Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    At least 37 schools in EC have no toilets at all

    The province also has the highest number of pit toilets in the country.

    1520 days ago
  • FILE: Free State Education MEC Tate Makgoe. Picture: @MECTateMakgoe/Twitter.

    ‘Sanitation at some schools a national embarrassment’

    Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga convened an urgent meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday aimed at coming up with a plan to eradicate unsafe toilets at schools.

    1520 days ago
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