Education MEC pledges to rebuild KZN school vandalised by pupils
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Education has urged the Mooi Mpofana community to step up and protect its schools.
Kwazi Mshengu met with the community on Sunday, to address the situation at uMnyezaneni High School.
The Department says the school has experienced lawlessness, with its infrastructure vandalised and school resources stolen over time.
It says the school has also been plagued by drug abuse, gangsterism and faction fights stemming from outside.
Mshengu told the community that the Department would help to restore infrastructure as well as law and order, but added this would be the last time.
"One of the things we are going to announce is that we are going to rebuild it for the last time."
"If they destroy it, we are not going to rebuild it and if the environment continues to decline as it has been happening over the years, we will be forced rather to close the school and focus on other schools that still respect the culture of learning and teaching, schools where the communities still own up in terms of protecting the school," he says.
Renovations at the school are set to begin in February next year.
