“One thing I am begging for is for the government to assist us in rebuilding this school or bring mobile containers and park them here. We will take care of it,” he said. Should the government decide against this, he said, the new school should be called by another name as this would always be Mokibe Primary to the community.
“I have a six-year-old child who is in grade 1 and was attending school right here,” she said. “It’s been tough since the school was shut down because she has to wake up earlier and then go wait at the bus stop for the bus to take her to school,” she said. “I am always anxious and I agree that this school should rather be fixed than be closed,” Mtshweni added.
“The parents from other areas prefer this school because it is outside the township, so there are no drugs and other things which happen at these developed schools,” said Mthombeni. Mkhwebane said plans to build a new school had been put on hold after the community invoked the Communal Property Associations Act and refused to give its land to government to build the new school.