17 March 2023, Johannesburg – SECTION27, in partnership with the Centre for Child Law, will launch an online tool, The Michael Komape Sanitation Progress Monitor, to track progress made by the Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) to eliminate unsafe and undignified sanitation at public schools throughout the Limpopo province and Continue Reading
9 March 2023, Johannesburg – The Centre for Child Law (CCL) and SECTION27 condemn the devastatingly slow pace of the Department of Basic Education in eradicating pit latrine toilets in public schools. It has been almost 9 years since young Michael Komape and 5 years since Lumka Mthethwa died a Continue Reading
Read Motheo Brodie’s City Press Op-ed about the LDOE’s lack of urgency to provide mobile toilets to schools in Limpopo.
GOVERNMENT MUST #FIXTHEFORGOTTENSCHOOLS, SAYS SECTION27 SECTION27 takes education authorities to court for suspending infrastructure projects at Limpopo schools during Covid-19. UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 9AM 3 October 2022 – SECTION27 has filed papers with the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Pretoria) to ensure that the Department of Basic Education Continue Reading
Recent plans to eradicate pit toilets from schools in Limpopo are a step in the right direction, but still need work.
SECTION27 SEEKING TO INTERVENE IN YET ANOTHER UNSAFE SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE CASE TO CALL FOR BETTER SECURITY AT SCHOOLS TO PREVENT DANGEROUS INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS. Tuesday 19 October 2021 – SECTION27 is applying to be admitted as amicus curiae in a case about unsafe school infrastructure in Gauteng, concerning a tragic incident Continue Reading
SECTION27 analysis of Komape Judgment SECTION27 will continue to monitor implementation of the court order in the Limpopo Sanitation case 20 September 2021 On 17 September 2021, the High Court (Limpopo Division) delivered judgment for the second time in the case of Komape v Minister of Basic Education in favour Continue Reading
Judgment in the Limpopo Sanitation Case is a vindication of learners’ rights 17 September 2021 SECTION27 welcomes the judgment of the High Court of South Africa (Limpopo Division) in the Rosina Komape and others v Minister of Basic Education and Others handed down by Judge Muller on Friday 17 September Continue Reading
MEDIA ADVISORY: LIMPOPO SCHOOL PIT TOILET CASE TO BE HEARD TOMORROW 5 August 2021 – The Limpopo Division of the High Court will hear Rosina Komape and Others v. Minister of Basic Education and Others case of 2015 in Polokwane on Friday, 6 August 2021. This is the continuation of a case heard Continue Reading
The case for eradicating pit-toilets at schools in Limpopo will be heard on Friday 6 August 2021 before Judge Muller in the High Court of South Africa (Limpopo Division) in Polokwane. The hearing initially set to be heard on Monday, 24 May 2021, was postponed after the Judge President of Continue Reading
SECTION27’s court case to fight for the eradication of pit toilets in Limpopo schools, which was originally set down to be heard by the High Court of South Africa (Limpopo Division) on Monday 24 May 2021 has been postponed. We have been informed by the Judge President of the High Continue Reading
SECTION27 is returning to the Polokwane High Court to continue the fight for safe, dignified and sanitary school toilets in Limpopo.
