Mano Naidoo, the acting principal, said the looting started on July 13 and parts of the school were torched the following day. unrestSA RebuildSA looting POST Newspaper
Mano Naidoo, the acting principal, said the looting started on July 13 and parts of the school were torched the following day.
Kwazi Mshengu, the education MEC, reportedly said the damages cost millions of rand and that they would assist in finding mobile classrooms to accommodate some of the pupils displaced in schools. But the mobile classrooms, he had said, were expensive. Naidoo said the following afternoon, he received a call from the school’s neighbouring residents that the school was on fire.“It was about 3pm when I received the call. When I got there my heart broke to see the school in flames. But the residents were already working together trying to put the fire out. People were actually crying. It was only about an hour later that the fire department arrived and put the fire out.”“Everything was gone. Nothing could be salvaged.
“The looting and destruction of schools is heartless and criminal. It deprives our children of a future and their constitutional right to quality education ... Schools will not be built and repaired overnight. Are we going to sit under trees? Our children don’t deserve this. Naptosa urges communities to protect their schools. You owe it to our children.”
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