Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says she needs 10-billion rand to completely eradicate pit latrines in schools.
EFF leader, Julius Malema, says humanity will be restored when all people have access to functional basic services, such as sewerage systems in schools.
Education Activists have called on government to convene a School Safety Indaba to develop a safety charter for the well-being of learners.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), together with teachers’ union South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) and the African National Congress (ANC) are expected to lead a march to Hoërskool Overvaal in Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg, on Thursday morning.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday that the quality of education in South Africa had hardly improved and that the figure of children who have dropped out of school was unacceptably high.
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