PARENTS of pupils at Makelle Primary School in Goudplaas Village, Limpopo are gatvol.
On Wednesday, 17 January they prevented the school from reopening, stating that the mobile classrooms posed danger to their kids because of their poor condition.
They claimed that the classrooms have crawling insects, leak during rainfall, and are in a bad state.
Gogo Evelyn Moyaba (56), who has two grandchildren at the school, expressed her concern.
"All pupils will only return to school when the department provides three new temporary mobile classrooms.
"The school is not safe due to its current conditions, as there's a high risk of snakes entering through holes," she said.
Parents complained that the school, established in 2008 for grades R to 7 pupils, only has four mobile classrooms. With more than 200 pupils, the parents claimed that their children share one class per two grades.
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Parent Mapula Malatswana said this has been happening for more than 10 years.
"The situation has worsened this year, which is a clear indication that our cry has fallen on deaf ears. We hope the education department intervenes urgently," she said.
Member of the school governing body (SGB), Radjadji Kobela, expressed frustration with the unacceptable condition of the mobile classrooms.
She claimed that despite efforts to raise the issue with local circuits and the education department in Polokwane, no action has been taken.
"No new mobile classrooms have been provided, and the contractor left for no reason while they were starting to build new classrooms," she said.
Daily Sun contacted the provincial education department spokesman Mike Maringa for more information, but he had not yet commented at the time of publishing.
