Parents built and rebuilt Port St Johns school themselves.
At Chabasa Junior Secondary School in Port St Johns, learners are studying outside under a tree to escape overcrowded classrooms.
Parents and teachers say for years they have been begging the Eastern Cape Department of Education to add more classrooms but their cry is falling on deaf ears.visited the school last week, some of the learners were having class outside, sitting on their school bags. According to teachers, the desks are too heavy to carry outside by grade 2 learners.
School Governing Body Chairperson Zamile Marongo said they had been asking the department for a new school since 2018. “The only thing they are giving us is empty promises,” said Marongo.“Most people living here are pensioners. We are using our social grant money every year to fix the school.” “Each parent donated R100. Some volunteered to buy bricks, and some bought five bricks, others two. We used the money to buy cement and other material but it was not enough. The zinc you see on the roof was donated by people. That is why most of the classrooms have leakages — we had to use old zinc,” he said.The school kitchen is made of old zinc sheets and has no electricity or running water. with broken seats and no doors.
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