Angry Limpopo parents yesterday demolished school pit toilets where a five-year-old boy died earlier this week.
Grade R pupil Michael Komape fell into a pit latrine at Mahlodumela Primary School in Chebeng, near Polokwane, on Monday, his third day at school.
Several hours after he left class to use the toilet a search for him began, and the school's principal found the body.
The toilet's seat was made of steel, which had worn through, leaving a gaping hole.
Limpopo education spokesman Phuti Seloba said in November that more than R400-million was earmarked to construct 1000 toilets at schools and that 600 had been built.
"Mahlodumela was one of the schools that were still to be attended to," he said yesterday.
He said 20 mobile flushing toilets would be taken there today.
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