As thousands of pupils made their way back to school yesterday, 845 pupils and staff from Ndzalama Primary School in Limpopo were greeted by the same dilapidated building they left last year.
Despite the numbers of schools damaged by storms and floods each year, the Department of Basic Education – and expenditure allocated to basic education from Treasury – has overlooked climate change, write Tshidi Lencoasa and Julia Chaskalson.
The public interest law clinic has launched an application in the North Gauteng High Court to reinstate infrastructure projects at four dilapidated Limpopo schools. For years, government has been promising to fix these schools.
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