Live Breaking News & Updates on Cookhouse Primary School In Greater Addo

ET Thabane Primary in the Eastern Cape, with close to 2 000 pupils, needs more mobile classrooms in order to comply with physical distancing measures. Photo: Groundup/ Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik.
The national education department as well as the Eastern Cape education department have not shown the consistent political will to ensure that schools in the province are fixed with the urgency needed, writes
 Elizabeth Biney, Hopolang Selebalo and
Jane Borman.
At Tantseka Primary School in Mthatha, over 200 pupils have been relieving themselves in the open air.
At Masizame Junior Primary, a mud school in Centane near Butterworth, 175 pupils have been using one broken toilet. And 147 schools in the Eastern Cape recently had their water supply cut off because the Eastern Cape Department of Education owes the Amathole District Municipality R8 million. ....

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