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Meeting obligations but failing hopes? An investigation into South Africa’s obligation to realise the Human right to sanitation in Rural schools

Magister Legum - LLM / In South Africa, notwithstanding 25 years into democracy, the constitutional commitment to
socio-economic transformation of post-apartheid South Africa remains unfulfilled and
unrealized by the vast majority of its people.
The quality of education and access to adequate sanitation in South Africa are issues not exempt
from the injustices of apartheid and its consequences of entrenched inequalities and
differentiated access to socio-economic rights and privileges. Rural schools or townships have
been characterized by unreliable access to water and unsafe pit latrines, or children practising
open defecation. And tragically, there have been a series of loss of life due to children drowning
in open pit toilets on school property.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7585
Date January 2019
CreatorsNdesi, Odwa
ContributorsScholtz, Werner
PublisherUniversity of Western Cape
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsUniversity of Western Cape

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