Flooding leaves KZN with R442m bill to repair schools
KwaZulu-Natal's Education MEC says around R442 million is needed to repair the schools that have been damaged by the floods.
MEC Kwazi Mshengu was speaking at Brettenwood School where he joined Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, who's visiting schools that have suffered some damage.
"That's only related to infrastructure as you can see in this school, a lot of things have been damaged. Literally, the only things you find in schools are teachers and learners, but in terms of teacher support material and other equipment is completely gone."
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"So we are quantifying those damages now, so definitely the figure will go up. That's what we are expecting from now on that's why we said all our schools will open today, but we were mindful of the fact that not all schools can commence with teaching and learning."
Officials say 630 schools were affected by last week's torrential rains.
A total of 101 of them are inaccessible.
Motshekga says they're also providing support to pupils who've been affected by the floods.
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"Displaced kids, kids who are orphaned who lost their parents, kids who are own their own that's where the province has put in place psycho-social service programme which is going to be led by social development.
"We were not able to access our kids. We were only able to get reports from those centres which are not necessarily run by us."
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