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The death of a 12-year-old Limpopo youngster following at a fire at an initiation school has left many questioning what a boy ...
Parents and caregivers in Limpopo with children who need to be admitted to public school in 2023 (either for the first time or to move schools), should take note of the opening of registration for ...
Tens of thousands of learners in Limpopo schools still rely on pit toilets, according to public interest law firm SECTION27.
Twenty-one boys from two initiation schools in Mokopane, Limpopo, have been hospitalised due to complications from botched circumcisions, raising serious concerns about safety standards in traditional ...
Sibongile was part of a group of equalisers in Ga-Mashashane, who began agitating for safe, “dignified” toilets and a reliable supply of water at public schools in Limpopo.
Tens of thousands of learners in the province still rely on pit latrines, according to public interest law firm Section27.
A lack of additional Covid-19 funding means that public school principals and governing bodies are being forced to perform a financial juggling act with potentially deadly consequences.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has heard how two schools and a hospital in Limpopo were overwhelmed with Covid-19 related challenges. She was told that pupils and workers have had to wear sub ...
The Limpopo education department again found itself in court on Friday over its failure to eradicate pit latrines at schools. In 2018, the same court ordered the department to get rid of unsafe ...
The state of toilets at public schools in Limpopo is “gut-wrenchingly disappointing”. That is what the head of education rights at civil rights group Section27, Faranaaz Veriava, wrote in a ...
Section27 wants the court to declare the state’s decision to suspend building projects at public schools in Limpopo unlawful and unconstitutional. This decision was taken during the lockdown in ...
Thousands of Limpopo pupils are still without textbooks four months into the school year as the government probes a controversial R320 million textbook tender in the cash-strapped province. The ...