A primary school in Limpopo with collapsed classrooms will only be able to accommodate grade 7 pupils due to lack of space.
" It is a serious crisis here as it will be difficult for pupils, including teachers to keep social distancing in order to manage the spread of Covid-19. We have a total of 239 pupils in the school and the grade 7 have already occupied three mobile classrooms," he said.
Another teacher said the mobile classrooms were more cold during this time of the year and some were struggling to keep warm. A community leader, Peter Ramollo, said they have not been getting a positive respond from the department of education regarding the construction of the new buildings. "We are worried about the safety of our children, but there is nothing we can do. The school, which was burnt by unknown people, was already old and dilapidated and we already made an application for a new school in 2003," he said.
A grade 12 pupil in Rama Secondary School at Maekgwe village said the school has two blocks and three occupied by the grade 12s. We don't know were other grades are going to be allocated because there are only three left classrooms,"he said.
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