Bone-chilling screams of traumatised children with fear in their eyes disrupts the laughter on the school grounds in Polokwane. A five- year-old child drowns in a pit latrine in 2014. On 15 March 2018 another five-year-old child died in a primary school in the Eastern Cape after falling into a pit toilet.
Since 2014, two more children died in South Africa's schools after toilet walls collapsed on them. The Driehoek tragedy is still fresh in our minds, where two boys and a girl died after a concrete slab fell on them and injured 23 other pupils that were rushed to hospital. This happened on 1 February 2019 in Vanderbijlpark. Our prayers go out to the parents that will be spending Christmas without their children.
If the South African government was serious about the lives of our children; if they were serious about human dignity; if they were serious about child safety; and if they really cared about the education system and the future of our country, why then Chair? Why then would they cut the education budget on school infrastructure year on year? Why would they allow and support the fact that