Mobile classrooms burnt in protest over delayed repairs at Joburg school

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'How do you burn a school while demanding better infrastructure?'

here had been no schooling at Oakdale Secondary for Grades 8 to 11, after parents shut down the school fearing for the safety of pupils. They said theIn March, a protest at another Ennerdale school saw pupils stage a stayaway to demand that delayed infrastructure repairs be prioritised by the department. They said they feared a bridge collapse similar to what occurred at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark in January, when four pupils died.

Also in March, the Gauteng department of education disclosed that it has just over R1bn allocated for the renovation and rehabilitation of public schools but needs five times that amount. The budget allocated for planned and unplanned renovations amounted to only R871m and R200m respectively, while the department is faced with aging and deteriorating school infrastructure that requires about R5bn in maintenance.

This was revealed when Lesufi responded to questions in the provincial legislature from DA shadow education MEC Khume Ramulifho about the state of ageing infrastructure at some schools in the province. In February, Lesufi promised that school infrastructure upgrades would be a focus of his department in 2019.

 

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it's like burning a train at night and waiting at the train station the next morning for the train you burn down last night

Cognitive dissonance.

Arsonists

Maybe its a reflextion of the character of these peoples past and present,having ,despite being around for millenia have nothing to show the world but ruines

Unfortunately that's the only way to get service delivery in SA

Idiocy

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