Tree School case goes to court
The application seeks to ensure that the learners of Makangwane School are taught in safe and adequate school facilities before 17 July 2018, which is when the third school term begins.
Makangwane Secondary School – A decade of neglect and broken promises
Learners at Makangwane Secondary School in Nonparella, Limpopo are being taught under trees since January this year when part of the school roof was ripped off during a storm and the remaining structure posed a threat to the safety
Komape family applies for leave to appeal court judgment
JOHANNESBURG, 17 May 2018 – SECTION27, representing Michael Komape’s family, has started proceedings to appeal the judgement handed down in the Limpopo High Court. The judgement rejected the civil claim by the Komape family for damages
Komape judgment fails to develop common law on constitutional damages
Polokwane: 23 April 2018 - Judge GC Muller has given the Limpopo Department of Education a reprieve with the judgment delivered in the case initiated by the Komape family against…
Komape Judgement – Media Statement
SECTION27 notes with mixed reaction the judgment handed down in the trial of the tragic death of Michael Komape by Judge Muller.While we welcome the structural interdict to provide adequate and safe sanitation for learners in the Limpopo
Michael Komape trial judgement 23 April 2018
Komape Judgement 23 April
Justice for Michael Exhibition at the Human Rights Festival
Johannesburg 16 March 2018 #Justice4Michael Exhibition Statement Four years ago, Michael Komape fell into a pit toilet and died. His name has become synonymous with the struggle for children around…
#Justice4Michael
These postcards are part of the #Justice4Michael advocacy campaign. Thousands of learners in Gauteng, Pretoria and Cape Town wrote messages of support to the Komape family or a message for the MEC of Education in Limpopo, Ishmael Kgetjepe, sharing their thoughts and feelings on the untimely death of Michael Komape.
Do you Know Michael? A re-enactment of the day Michael died
On the 20 January 2014, Michael Komape stepped out of his Grade 1 classroom to use the outside pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School, near Polokwane, Limpopo. His body was later found in the pit after he fell
VUWANI PROTEST: A THREAT TO LEARNERS’ RIGHT TO BASIC EDUCATION
Giyani, 4 September 2017 – Basic Education for All (BEFA) notes with concern the ongoing threat to the right to basic education of Vuwani learners as a result of the recurring protest action over demarcation issues. These protests have once again forced the shutdown of schools in and around the area.
Raking through Vuwani schools’ ashes
The Vuwani area resembles a ghost town, filled with scenes of textbook graveyards, charred walls and the remaining skeletons of furniture that once was. Basic Education for All (BEFA) and…
Right to basic education, Vuwani
This article first appeared on The Daily Maverick All photos by SECTION27. If you had asked most South Africans a fortnight ago where Vuwani was, smart money would be on very…