Limpopo sanitation mobile toilets Nov 2022
Read Motheo Brodie’s City Press Op-ed about the LDOE’s lack of urgency to provide mobile toilets to schools in Limpopo.
LDOE KOMAPE PLANS JULY 2022
Recent plans to eradicate pit toilets from schools in Limpopo are a step in the right direction, but still need work.
High Court declares sanitation in schools a “national emergency”
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
LIMPOPO SCHOOL PIT TOILET CASE TO BE HEARD TOMORROW
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
Media Advisory: Limpopo School Pit-toilet Case will be Heard at the Limpopo High Court on 6 August 2021
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
Sanitation structural order Komape Case returns to court
SECTION27 is returning to the Polokwane High Court to continue the fight for safe, dignified and sanitary school toilets in Limpopo.
Thinking sustainably about school sanitation: we need more than quick-fixes and empty promises
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
Supreme Court of Appeal judgment gives the Komape Family #Justice4Michael
18 December 2019 PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SECTION27 welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Komape v Minister of Basic Education. The SCA judgment overturns a decision of Polokwane High Court in 2018 that dismissed a substantial part of the Komape family’s Continue Reading
Michael Komape: Supreme Court of Appeal Judgment
SECTION27 welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the case of Komape v Minister of Basic Education and Others. The judgment of the SCA awards damages for emotional shock and grief to each member of the Komape family to the total value of R1,4 million as Continue Reading
MEDIA ALERT #Justice4Michael
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
The road to justice in the case of Michael Komape
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
Komape SCA Heads of Argument
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