The Limpopo High Court has handed down judgment in favour of the Komape family, with an order compelling the provincial administration to provide, within 90 days, a detailed list of all schools in the province with pit toilets along with plans to eradicate these. The defendants in the case - the Limpopo Department of Education (LDOE) and the Department of Basic Education (DBE) - have also been ordered to show how the funds for this programme will be sourced, and to explain what interim measures will be implemented "to address schools urgent sanitation needs and immediate safety risks pending the delivery of permanent sanitation measures". Michael Komape was five years old when he drowned in a pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primacy School in Chebeng Village, outside Polokwane, on 20 January 2014. Elijah Mhlanga, Spokesperson Department of Basic Education, on the judgment

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