Kliptown Primary School in Soweto, South Africa, is still unfit for learning at the start of the 2025 academic year, despite officials' promises to fix it. Months after the initial promise, the school remains in poor condition with unsafe classrooms, lack of water and functioning toilets, and outdated mobile units.
Despite promises, Kliptown Primary School remains unsafe and unfit for learning as 2025 begins, leaving frustrated parents demanding urgent action.
Months after education officials promised to fix collapsing Kliptown Primary School, the start of the 2025 academic year has seen no improvement in the school’s condition. “The department is playing with our children’s lives and those of the teachers. They don’t care because their children are in private schools. We need this school fixed.”visited the school yesterday, pupils were moving furniture from old asbestos classrooms to mobile units that had been standing unused for over a year.There is no water or functioning toilets near the mobile class to the old asbestos building for drinking water and to use the restroom. Teachers face the same challenges.
In November, the department promised to deliver furniture, install mobile classrooms and provide functioning toilets and running water by this month.The school accommodates over 700 pupils from Grades 1 to 7.
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