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Dec 3, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Yamkela Ntshongwana |Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

GROUNDUP Mampondo Primary School now has 12 new aerobic sanitation system toilets. Children at Mampondo Primary School in Sicwenza outside Flagstaff need no longer fear falling into a pit toilet. In October, GroundUp reported that a six-year-old had to be rescued after falling into one of the old pits toilets in August, and how in June an eight-year-old had also fallen in. Don't want to see this?

Nov 4, 2024 | allafrica.com | Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik |Yamkela Ntshongwana

Eastern Cape Department of Health says there's no budget to build a clinic for residents of Sicweza village just outside Flagstaff Patients in Sicweza village just outside Flagstaff have to leave home before dawn to walk three hours to the nearest health facility. This village along with two other remote ones, Khimbili and Manquzu, are meant to be serviced by a mobile clinic every week.

Nov 4, 2024 | groundup.org.za | Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik |Yamkela Ntshongwana

Patients in Sicweza village just outside Flagstaff have to leave home before dawn to walk three hours to the nearest health facility. This village along with two other remote ones, Khimbili and Manquzu, are meant to be serviced by a mobile clinic every week. But there are currently only two mobile clinics available in the Ingquza Hill Local Municipality, and patients say it only visits their area every two months.

Oct 17, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Yamkela Ntshongwana |Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

GROUNDUP There are only two pit toilets shared by 135 pupils and eight staff at Mampondo Primary – the same latrines the school governing body chairperson used as a pupil at the school in the early 1990s. Eight staff members and 135 pupils are sharing two broken pit toilets at Mampondo Primary School in Sicwenza location, outside Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape.

Oct 16, 2024 | groundup.org.za | Yamkela Ntshongwana |Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Eight staff members and 135 learners are sharing two broken pit toilets at Mampondo Primary School in Sicwenza location, outside Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape. School governing board (SGB) members say an eight-year-old boy in June and a six-year-old in August had to be rescued after they fell into the toilets. The school has 12 pit toilets but only two are usable, although they are broken.