However, teachers, school governing body and residents told the newspaper the school was vandalised by criminals because it has no security.
They said furniture was stolen and cables and pipes were stripped during the break-ins in October and December. Sowetan visited the school yesterday and saw children exposed to electric cables popping up from the ground and overgrown grass. Pupils could not even use toilets as they have been locked because there was no water.
Pupils were no longer being served meals, SGB said this was because the stove and cooking utensils were stolen during the burglaries.Children have a right to education, the conditions they are learning under at Paradise are unfavourable. How are they expected to perform well in class with empty stomachs?The MEC vowing not to fix the school is not helping either. We call on him to go to this community and find a way forward that is in the interest of the children.
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