Betty Moleya<\/strong><\/p>\n Pretoria – No learning will take place at Sekampaneng Primary School in Hammanskraal until temporary mobile classrooms have been provided.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A side of a classroom collapsed last Saturday, adding to a long list of issues concerning safety at the school due to dilapidated infrastructure.<\/p>\n Parents gathered at the school yesterday and made their way to the Education Department\u2019s district office to seek answers and solutions for the infrastructure problems at the school.<\/p>\n They are concerned about the safety of their children, and will not allow their children to go back to the school yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Motlogelwa Matjila, a member of the school governing body, said the unsafe infrastructure and water coming from below the ground on to surfaces, was not a new development, and action was long overdue.<\/p>\n Learning has been suspended at Skampaneng Primary School in Hammanskraal following the collapse of a side of a class at the school and water coming up from underneath the ground. #School @DBE_SA @EducationGP1 #Collapse #SchoolCollapse #Hammanskraal pic.twitter.com\/w7qb2rBclu<\/p>\n \u2014 Pretoria News (@pretorianews) January 27, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cWe have been reporting this issue for years, but there has been no way forward. This has been going on for eight to nine years.\u201d<\/p>\n Matjila said the parents\u2019 plea was for the school to be fixed and be a safe place for their children to learn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He said the school did not have a building plan, and engineers could attest to that.<\/p>\n The primary school was built in the 1960s by the community, and parents say this might have had an effect on the quality of the structures.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want temporary mobile classes and they should also let us know when they will be able to fix the school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThis is not a place for learning, and not safe at all.<\/p>\n \u201cSending our children to this place is a death wish, it is very risky,\u201d one parent said.<\/p>\n Despite the unsafe infrastructure, the school was overcrowded and Matjila said this was due to the outstanding results it achieved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe school is performing well, the problem is the infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n The classrooms and present mobile classrooms are surrounded by water, at the bottom of which a green layer has formed.<\/p>\n The other main concern of the parents is the health and well-being of the learners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Khume Ramulifho, DA MPL and provincial spokesperson on Education, said based on observations and the overcrowding at the school, this was an urgent matter that needed to be attended to.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to engage with MEC Panyaza Lesufi to intervene and provide mobile classes in the meantime because building a school takes time.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are 10 classes that are not being utilised at the school, and there are an average of 65 learners per class.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ramulifho said engineers needed to asses the school and determine what type of structures could be built at the site.<\/p>\n The school has over 2 000 learners and the classes are overcrowded; it a place of learning for Sekampaneng children and those from neighbouring villages.<\/p>\n Pupils are currently not attending school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Gauteng Department of Education had yet to comment by late yesterday.<\/p>\n Pretoria News<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\nMORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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