Inkwenkwezi Secondary School has more than 1,500 learners enrolled for 2024, with an average of about 45 learners per classroom. Many parents have to send their children to Bloubergrant High, about 2km away or Sinenjongo High School in Joe Slovo Park, about 7 km from Dunoon.
‘We have three primary feeder schools, but our high school cannot accommodate the entire Dunoon,’ said Sinethembe Matomela, chairperson of the South African National Civic Organisation Dunoon branch. ‘Most of our kids have to go outside Dunoon and it’s costly for parents,’ said Matomela. The Western Cape Education Department awarded a contract to erect 14 new classrooms at Inkwenkwezi Secondary, to be completed by March 2023. But it stalled due to payment issues between the main contractor and subcontractors, said Kerry Mauchline, spokesperson for Western Cape education MEC David Maynier.Mauchline said the classrooms are to be built using the ‘Moladi’ building system, which involves moulds with reinforced concrete.