In Aliwal North in the Eastern Cape, 940 pupils at a primary school can only be taught for four hours a day because there are insufficient classrooms. Children also have to sit in burnt classrooms that could collapse on them at any time
This is according to Yusuf Cassim, the DA leader and member of the Eastern Cape provincial legislature who visited the Alheit van der Merwe Primary School in Hilton on an oversight visit recently, and found conditions not conducive to learning.
The poor infrastructure and limited resources left the school with no option but to split the pupils, with some grades attending classes in the morning, and others in the afternoons.Yusuf Cassim of the DA speaks with a staff member at Alheit van der Merwe Primary School. Photo: SuppliedAccording to Cassim, Education MEC Fundile Gade, has been promising to provide seven temporary classrooms since January.
Some of the schools are not going to be built urgently because you have got a rationalisation and repurposition that its taking place, which means we have got a process of closing few schools around the province that are not viable and have got a small number [of pupils]. As we do that, we re-direct pupils to another school.
“Now it then tells you that the pace at which we are building schools and responding to court pronouncements is also hampered by an available budget that was cut by the National Treasury,” she said.
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