Teaching was disrupted at two East London schools on the first day of term on Tuesday when parents demanded pupils vacate classrooms in protest at the failure of authorities to address several key issues.
There has been no teaching and learning at Tungweni Junior Senior Secondary in Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape since February because teachers are refusing to attend the school out of fears for their safety.
For years, subsidies have been withheld from the poorest Eastern Cape schools, which have been surviving on 38% of what they were entitled to from the ECDOE.
The poorest schools in the Eastern Cape, handicapped by underfunding over the past three years, are breathing a sigh of relief thanks to the intervention of the Legal Resources Centre in Makhanda.
After allegedly administering corporal punishment to pupils, a principal took a severely injured matriculant home and offered an apology to her parents.