Motshekga must take 'personal responsibility' for Michael Komape's death - DA | IOL News

RUSTENBURG - The DA has called on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to take personal responsibility for the failure of her department to prevent the death of Michael Komape five years ago.

"The Democratic Alliance welcomes the recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment in which it awarded damages of R1.4 million to the family of the five-year-old boy, Michael Komape, who drowned in a pit toilet at school five years ago. "Whilst this judgment may bring some much-needed relief to the family, basic education minister Angie Motshekga must take personal responsibility for the failure of her department to prevent this tragedy," DA shadow minister of basic education Desiree van der Walt said on Thursday.

"It is especially disheartening that the family had to walk such a long and hard road. The education departments, both national and provincial, and minister Motshekga clearly didn't care enough and it is tragic that the family had to go to the courts to get justice. "This heartbreaking case is a vivid reminder that there are many others who are still suffering because they have lost a child in a pit toilet accident," said Van der Walt.

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