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Equal Education urges govt to improve school infrastructure
Activists and researchers Equal Education recently visited an Eastern Cape school where pit toilets are still being used.
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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.
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Education Dept plans to fast-track provision of safe toilets at schools
Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa told Education Minister Angie Motshekga that she had a month to provide him with an audit on school sanitation.
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Motshekga to hold urgent meeting with MECs, HODs to eradicate pit toilets
The high level meeting comes amid the grief and outrage caused by the death of a five-year-old girl who fell into a pit toilet in the Eastern Cape last week.
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Mabuza: Government has neglected children
Deputy president David Mabuza focused on a few cases involving young children when he reminded government officials that they are cheating South Africans of freedom by not delivering what was promised before 1994.
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Education Dept to hold urgent meeting with provincial leaders on pit toilets
The Department of Basic Education says small children should not be unaccompanied when using dangerous pit toilets at schools.
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As clock ticks, Motshekga calls urgent meeting after pit toilet death
The minister has taken action following the death of five-year-old Viwe Jali.
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Human Right Commission to launch its own probe into pit toilet death
Lobby groups like Equal Education and Section 27 have expressed shock and anger at the tragedy, adding the basic education department must be held accountable.
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Ramaphosa sets deadline for removal of pit toilets at schools
The president has also instructed Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to conduct an audit of all learning facilities with unsafe structures within a month.
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Parliament shocked, disappointed by EC pit toilet death
Viwe Jali, a learner at Luna Primary in Mbizana, was found in the toilet on Tuesday after going missing for a day.
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Motshekga: Pit toilet child death undignified & completely unacceptable
Five-year-old Viwe Jali fell into the toilet at the Luna Primary School in Bizana on Tuesday.
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Motshekga ‘saddened’ after EC learner dies in pit toilet
Five-year-old Viwe Jali fell into the toilet at the Luna Primary School in Bizana on Tuesday.
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