It’s time to make safe school sanitation a national priority
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?
Launch of the SAFE initiative: Proof will be in the pudding
The DBE’s approach to issues of school sanitation and infrastructure more broadly have been far more obstructive than the SAFE Initiative might suggest. The difficulties of unsafe school sanitation are not new. Together with community-based organisation Basic Education for All (BEFA), SECTION27 has consistently raised the challenges with the DBE as far back as 2012. In this time we have seen no real urgency or political will to mitigate this emergency. And we have seen the urgency of the situation intensify.
Judge finds in favour of Makangwane (Tree School) SGB
Today SECTION27 secured a huge victory for Makangwane Secondary School in the rural village of Non-Parella, Limpopo. In an urgent application brought by SECTION27 on behalf of the Makangwane SGB
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 the Department of Basic Education and the Limpopo Department of Education (the defendants) following the death of Michael Komape at Continue Reading
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
#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
LDoE: More money, same problems
This article was first published on GroundUp Limpopo education department: More money, same problems The department has a large budget, but still fails to deliver By Kate Paterson The Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) has consistently been given extraordinary amounts of money and, time and time again, has failed to Continue Reading