Parents complain about broken toilets, electricity and water issues, a lack of scholar transport and unsupervised disabled children seemingly being left to fend for themselves at the school.
As thousands of university’s first-year students get ready for their higher education studies, Eastern Cape universities said they have mechanisms in place to support those living with disabilities to continue furthering their studies at tertiary level. While the total number of the enrolment of this year’s students with disabilities at the province’s four universities is yet to be confirmed, owing to current registration, Nelson Mandela University seemed to be the preferred choice by stude.