Close to a year ago, the family of Michael Komape – a five-year-old learner, who fell into a pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School in Limpopo and drowned – won an important victory at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). The SCA stated, in a “stinging rebuke”, that “the failure Continue Reading
SECTION27 prepares to take Limpopo Department of Education to court of over poor sanitation, again – this time in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic 3 June 2020 – SECTION27 is representing the School Governing Body (SGB) of Kharivha Primary School (“Kharivha”) in Ndovhada village in Limpopo, a Continue Reading
The appeal in the case of Komape v Minister of Basic Education and Others will be heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal (the “SCA”) on 2 September 2019. SECTION27 will be representing the family of Michael Komape in their efforts to seek justice following the death of their son. Michael Continue Reading
MK-timeline2019 The appeal in the case of Komape v Minister of Basic Education and Others will be heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal (the “SCA”) on 2 September 2019. SECTION27 has been representing the family of Michael Komape since 2015 in their efforts to seek a semblance of justice Continue Reading
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Johannesburg 6 March, 2019 – SECTION27 is disturbed by the allegations of corruption perpetrated by the Limpopo Education MEC Ishmael Kgetjepe and condemns such corruption in the strongest terms possible because of its impact on the continued violation of the rights of learners. A recent City Press report has revealed that Continue Reading
Johannebsurg – 4 February 2019. The School Governing Body of Makangwane Secondary School has been vindicated in the judgment delivered by Judge Semenya of the Limpopo High Court on 1 February 2019. In the case of the School Governing Body of Makangwane Secondary School v the MEC of the Executive Continue Reading
A statement from Basic Education for All (BEFA), SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) We are horrified and angry at media and Department of Basic Education reports that five year old Lumka Mkhethwa died in a pit latrine at Luna Primary school in Bizana in the Eastern Cape. This Continue Reading
Mr M Maimane Federal leader: Democratic Alliance Parliament Plein Street Cape Town By email: leader@da.org.za Ms L Watson 79 Hans van Rensburg Polokwane By email: plo@dalimpopo.co.za/ leannewatson@vodamail.co.za 17 March 2017, Dear Mr Maimane and Ms Watson The DA’s use of Michael Komape’s name 1. On Continue Reading
TOWARDS SAFE AND DECENT SCHOOL SANITATION IN LIMPOPO
Komape Structural Interdict Report 1 Komape Structural Interdict Report 2
President Ramaphosa, we require a more precise definition of what “not fit for purpose” means. Do schools with collapsing brick and mortar cubicles qualify within this category?