The high court in Mthatha has found that a contractor who had built school toilets at four schools in the Eastern Cape and then vandalised the buildings had violated the rights of learners to an education.
In her judgment Judge Nomathamsanqa Beshe said that numerous court interdicts had been issued by the high court against Sifanele and his company to stop him dismantling or removing building materials from the schools. reported in August that he had gone to Gwegwe Junior Secondary and removed the roof of the school’s toilets. in 2015 to build toilet blocks at the schools and he completed the work in 2016. He claimed that he had not been paid his outstanding money for the job.
“As a result of this, the schools’ ablution facilities were rendered to be non-compliant with the requirements for re-opening following the closure/shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Functional toilets being one of these requirements. Consequently, the three schools will not reopen until there are proper ablution facilities in place. In that way, the learners’ rights to basic education will be compromised,” reads the judgment.
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