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Equal Education's picket is in regard to what they say are the drastic and unacceptable changes that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga wants to make to the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure.

Archive photo: A learner in a class in Zanokhanyo Junior Secondary School in Butterworth, Eastern Cape. In July 2019 parents shut down the school because it was falling down.Archive photo: A learner in a class in Zanokhanyo Junior Secondary School in Butterworth, Eastern Cape. In July 2019 parents shut down the school because it was falling down.

Members of lobby group Equal Education are expected to hold a picket at the Basic Education Department’s offices in Pretoria on Friday. This is with regard to what they say are the drastic and unacceptable changes that Basic Education Minister AngieThey say the minister proposes to remove deadlines to fix schools from the infrastructure legislation. Minister Motshekga signed the Norms and Standards into law in 2013 following pressure from the lobby group.

Five-year-old Michael Komape died after falling into a pit latrine at his school in Chebeng Village, outside Polokwane in 2014. “The scariest change that Minister Motshekga wants to make to the school infrastructure law is to scrap the deadlines that put the responsibility on the government to get rid of pit latrines and provide basics such as water, electricity, classrooms, libraries by specific dates.

 

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Leave minister alone what are parents doing about this, not saying about this ...black parents need to step up and put the future of their children first ...we have just witnessed 21 deaths due to nigligence of parents leave government alone take care of your children yases

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