A total of 1049 schools in the Eastern Cape do not have proper toilet facilities, according to Education MEC Mandla Makhupula's reply to a DA parliamentary question in the provincial legislature. This is a human rights violation on an unprecedented scale, with an estimated 260 000 Eastern Cape children attending school each day without proper sanitation facilities. The DA wrote to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) this morning calling for a province-wide investigation into sanitation at … [Read more...] about 1049 Eastern Cape schools without proper toilets
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Human Rights Commission requested to investigate settlements without toilets
The Democratic Alliance has today engaged with and written to the Human Rights Commission to request an investigation in all areas in the province where there are settlements with no toilets. I have made this plea on behalf of the DA after personally visiting various communities and receiving information of settlements where inadequate or no toilets and sanitation exist. All our people have the right to decent standards of sanitation. The results of the 2011 Census revealed that the … [Read more...] about Human Rights Commission requested to investigate settlements without toilets
