SECTION27 is closely monitoring whether the Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) will meet its own 31 March 2025 deadline to eradicate and replace all pit toilets at so-called “Priority 1” schools in the province. The department missed their initial 31 March 2023 deadline to do so and has repeatedly extended 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.
Recent plans to eradicate pit toilets from schools in Limpopo are a step in the right direction, but still need work.
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.
On 21 March in South Africa, Human Rights Day, we remember the struggle and sacrifices made in the fight against the brutal and oppressive Apartheid regime, and we commemorate the establishment of a democratic South Africa which embraces human rights. However, despite South Africa having constitutionalised human rights, many of Continue Reading
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
VICTORY FOR LEARNERS AT LIMPOPO SCHOOL: Limpopo Department of Education delivers after SECTION27 demanded compliance with school safety preconditions at Kharivha Primary School 8 June 2020 – SECTION27 welcomes the delivery of temporary sanitation facilities at Kharivha Primary School (“Kharivha”). SECTION27 has been representing the School Governing Body (SGB) of Kharivha, Continue Reading
