Education facilities in Limpopo – including four schools – built at a cost of R143-million are standing empty and being vandalised despite a desperate need for proper infrastructure in the province.<\/p>\n
The provincial department of education allocated R106-million for the construction of three circuit offices in 2012 – one in Bochum (R33-million), another in Tshipse (R45-million) and a third in Mapela (R28-million).<\/p>\n
The offices were to double as teacher-training facilities. But the buildings are still empty and thieves have begun scavenging metal from them.<\/p>\n
A new school for the blind in Mankweng, 40km outside Polokwane, is covered in weeds and vandals have broken doors and windows, and stripped the building of its fittings.<\/p>\n
The school has 20 classrooms, two blocks of hostels, two residences, a kitchen and a dining hall. Building was completed in June, and pupils and teachers of Setotolwane School, which had been declared “unfit”, were expected to move in.<\/p>\n
Statistics SA released its Focus on Schooling in Limpopo report yesterday, showing that of the 154351 pupils who started school in 2001, only 53.4% wrote matric in 2013. Only 38.3% of them passed the National School Certificate.<\/p>\n
In 2012, the department was unable to provide textbooks on time. Deliveries were finally made after the department was taken to court.<\/p>\n
Provincial department spokes-man Paena Galane failed to explain why the three circuit offices remained unoccupied.<\/p>\n
Asked why the department abandoned the schools in Giyani, Galane said there were not enough teachers or pupils to occupy them.<\/p>\n
Source: timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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