Pit toilet death
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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...
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The Basic Education Department says most of the affected schools are in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal.
President Ramaphosa says the safe toilets initiative is overdue in the country following the deaths of pupils at schools.
Omari Monono died after falling into the pit last week.
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.
Monono Omari died after falling into a pit latrine while relieving himself last Wednesday.
Three-year-old Monono Omari died in the crude toilet at a relative’s home in Moletji on Wednesday.
It’s understood the incident occurred on Wednesday while the child was visiting a relative’s home in Moletjie Ditenteng.
Several weeks ago, five-year-old Lumka Mketwa drowned in a pit latrine.
Judge Gerrit Muller ordered the department to provide proper sanitation facilities at all the province’s government-run schools.
On Monday, the court dismissed a R3 million claim to compensate the Komape family.
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.
The family with the help of advocacy group Section 27 is suing government for damages.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga held an urgent meeting with education officials to assess the sanitation facilities at all schools.
Talk Radio 702 host Stephen Grootes speaks to Panyaza Lesufi, MEC for Education in Gauteng, about eradicating pit toilets at Gauteng schools.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says that her department’s budget alone will not be able to fund the project.
The province also has the highest number of pit toilets in the country.
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.