Cape Town parents demand classrooms
2013-01-22 09:14
Cape Town - More than 100 adults and children have protested in Macassar,
Cape Town, to demand that mobile classrooms be built for primary school pupils,
it was reported on Tuesday.
The Cape Times reported that the group blocked Baden Powell drive on Monday.
They were angry that around 470 of their children had apparently been left
without a school to attend at the start of the year.
They claimed the Western Cape education department undertook last year to
erect mobile classrooms, but this was denied by the department.
Bronagh Casey, spokesperson for MEC Donald Grant, told the newspaper the
department planned to build a new primary school in the area by 2016.
"The department has yet to identify a site for this school, but once
identified and secured, we can then start planning for a new primary school in
the area," she said.
A list had been handed to officials with the names of more than 400 pupils
who needed to be placed.
However, it was reportedly found that only 130 of these needed places as
some were already enrolled or were not of school-going age.
Casey told the newspaper that officials would meet with principals in the
area on Wednesday to determine the number of spaces still available.
- SAPA
