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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.
In a province where scores of schools need upgrades, maintenance and repairs, the Eastern Cape department of education has to forfeit R100million intended for infrastructural development because it wasn't able to spend the money within the financial year.
Buffalo City Metro’s ward 1 councillor Kuhle Ciliza has accused department of education officials of dishonesty and undermining parents and children of the vandalised Pefferville Primary School in East London. The school has no water and electricity due to vandalism totalling R4.6m. It had been rotating classes of two hours per day since schools were reopened on January 18.
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse parents and children from Pefferville Primary School in East London who braved Wednesday's rainy weather to protest against the “infringement of their right to education”.