A damning report has highlighted horrific shortfalls in the provision of water and sanitation and the failure to end violence against women and children in some of South Africa’s poorest provinces.
The report by the Presidential Working Group on Women (PWGW) comes as women and gender rights groups yesterday called for stronger political leadership in the fight to stop violence against women.
President Thabo Mbeki, who addressed the PWGW in Pretoria on Tuesday, has also come down hard – giving the group a four-week deadline to expand their organisation to see what is needed to be done to alleviate the plight of women and children.
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Some examples mentioned in the PWGW report:
- at the Millicent Noluthando Hospice in the Makwana Village, the Free State, 65 terminally ill patients, including four children, were sharing six rooms and one pit toilet
- at Sechaba Children’s Multipurpose Centre, there is only one pit toilet at the centre for 80 girls and 110 boys
- in Muhuyu village in Limpopo, 5,000 people share one borehole and one stream with 50 pupils and three teachers at a school sharing two pit toilets.
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