JUSTICE MALALA | Unconscionable leaders carry on regardless, ‘secure in their own comfort’
What happened to the ideal where respect for human rights was at the heart of all our endeavours?
26 March 2023 - 19:25
Nine years ago, five-year-old Michael Komape drowned in a pit toilet at his school in Limpopo. After numerous legal challenges by NGOs to bring those responsible to account, several courts ordered the Limpopo education department and others to eradicate pit toilets at schools. Political leaders stood at podiums and vowed this would never happen again...
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