With the latest budget allocating R30 billion in funding to build new schools and maintain the existing school infrastructure, a recent report has laid bare just how dire the situation at many South African schools really is. With the budget allocation for free higher education dwarfing that for school maintenance and for building schools, there’s..
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70 of the 190 ‘death trap’ schools flagged for structural defects – recent report has laid bare just how dire the situation at many South African schools really is
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Can we prevent another school tragedy from happening? Hoërskool Roodepoort ‘is a danger zone’ on the West Rand Eight classrooms in a three-storey building at the school are unusable, with sagging and cracked concrete slabs
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Barely a week after a walkway at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark collapsed killing four pupils, a union is warning of a disaster waiting to happen at another Gauteng school. The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie (SAOU) said eight classrooms in a three-storey building at Hoërskool Roodepoort were unusable, with sagging and cracked concrete slabs. The trade union said..
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