'Small and unviable': Eastern Cape government to close around 1 000 schools in rural areas
The Eastern Cape Education Department is set to close about 1 000 schools deemed unviable due to small pupil numbers, amid a struggle by the provincial government to deal with an infrastructure backlog amounting to billions of rand.
Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade said the province's infrastructure backlog currently stood at R72 billion. Gade added according to the department's rationalisation and merger policy, a primary school needed to have at least 135 pupils and a high school 200.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
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