Ramaphosa gives education minister deadline on pit toilets
Yet another child has died after falling into a pit toilet at a school.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga three months to come with a plan to get rid of pit toilets at South African schools.
This follows the death of five-year-old Lumka Mketwa, who fell into a pit toilet at a primary school in the Eastern Cape this week.
The Presidency's Khusela Diko says a plan must be in place for "all unsafe ablution facilities" within the next three months.
She adds, the president also instructed the minister to conduct an audit of all schools with unsafe structures and report back to him within a month.
Limpopo police launched an investigation into the death of a new-born who fell into a pit toilet in January, amid a range of similar incidents in that province in recent years.