Mobile classrooms for 139 looted, damaged KZN schools
The number of confirmed looted and damaged schools in KwaZulu-Natal has shot up to 139.
Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu has visited some of the affected schools in the uMlazi district.
At Bavumile Primary School, classrooms were vandalised and 18 laptops and other teaching and learning aids were stolen.
Mshengu says the department will provide mobile classrooms for schools that suffered damage.
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"Covid-19 has actually made things very difficult for us. The class of 2021 is the most disadvantaged because this class of 2021 was a Grade 11 who could not finish the curriculum last year because of the disruptions that happened when there was a hard lockdown and delay of opening of schools.
“So they are a limping grade 12. All these disruptions that have happened have really taken us back but we will soldier on and make sure that we score a higher mark again at the end of the year."
