This year’s theme for World Toilet Day, globally celebrated on November 19, is “Leaving No One Behind” — yet learners, predominantly in rural provinces, must use pit latrines.
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. Their experiences informed the beginning of Equal Education’s Limpopo Water and Sanitation campaign in 2017. The law came into effect just one year before the death of five-year-old Michael Komape, who fell into a pit toilet at his school in Limpopo.
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