This is not a broken bus – it’s a classroom in an Eastern Cape school
What looks like a dilapidated bus standing in the school yard of Sindawonye Primary School, next to the R75 in Coega, Eastern Cape, is in fact used as a classroom.
“I often use the bus for grade 6 learners so that they can be in a quiet classroom and get more attention,” says Sindawonye principal Thobile Nqabeni. “This is an underperforming school and the Department of Education has accepted that, attributing it to the dire situation. But they are doing nothing about it,” says Nqabeni.“Of our 79 learners, there are seven who don’t have birth certificates, and neither do their parents … Even though they are not being accommodated for meals [by the school feeding scheme], we feed them. We are now busy assisting them to get these important documents.
Petros Majola, from child rights and gender-based violence group Khula Community Development Project, said the situation in this school shows that the department of education is still far from meeting its goals and standards in terms of public schools infrastructure.department of education spokesman Malibongwe Mtima said that Sindawonye Primary School is a public school on private property.
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