GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
Judgment expected in case against Angie Motshekga after child dies in pit latrine
The basic education minister is under legal and political pressure to speed up the improvement of school infrastructure
Judgment is expected to be handed down in the High Court in Polokwane on Monday in the damages claim brought against Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga by the family of Michael Komape, 5, who drowned in a pit latrine at his school in Limpopo in 2014. Motshekga is facing legal and political pressure to speed up the improvement of school infrastructure after another 5-year-old child died in a school toilet in Bizana district in the Eastern Cape in March. President Cyril Ramaphosa instructed her to conduct an emergency audit of all schools with unsafe structures, with special focus on toilets, and gave her another three months to roll out the requisite infrastructure She also faces a separate legal challenge to her oversight of provincial education departments’ management of school infrastructure, brought by advocacy group Equal Education. In March, Equal Education asked the High Court in Bisho to compel Motshekga to fix loopholes in the rules for school norms and standards, argu...
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