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Deserving schools and charity organisations in the Buffalo City Metro received almost 2,000 books this week, ahead of World Read Aloud Day on Wednesday. The books were donated by the Daily Dispatch as part of its parent company Arena Holdings’ Arena Cares charity programme.
Minister of basic education Angie Motshekga on Wednesday said pupils who live more than 5km from their schools were meant to be provided with transport. But the provincial education department says the pupils forced to walk a dangerous 10km on the R72 to school, where a Daily Dispatch team was robbed at gunpoint, will have to wait until next month to get help.
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”.