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ANC denies offering ex-IFP chairwoman a job | The New Age Online
Pupils at a Limpopo school for the deaf and blind are living without hot water or working toilets. Windows and doors at the hostel at Setotolwane Secondary School for the Deaf and Visually Impaired in Mashashane near Polokwane are also broken.
In addition, some children say they are being denied food for not having paid school fees. “I saw first-hand the dilapidated buildings used as classrooms and the unhindered and unmonitored access to dormitories, effectively exposing them to rape and other dangers such as snakes,” said Desiree van der Walt, provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance, on Friday.
Van der Walt said that while there were two male security guards guarding the girls’ dormitory, their presence was inappropriate.
“This is unacceptable because these girls walk undressed when they take their morning baths,” Van der Walt said. She said the children were bathing in cold water because the geysers were broken.
She said two pupils had said they had been denied access to class and denied food in the dining hall as their school fees were outstanding.
“As a public school, it is wrong for this school to send learners away because they have no money for fees. It’s even worse to refuse them the most basic of human needs, food,” added Van der Walt.
“I will be writing to the South African Human Rights Commission asking them to investigate (the matter),” she said.
Pupils at a Limpopo school for the deaf and blind are living without hot water or working toilets. Windows and doors at the hostel at Setotolwane Secondary School for the Deaf and Visually Impaired in Mashashane near Polokwane are also broken.
In addition, some children say they are being denied food for not having paid school fees. “I saw first-hand the dilapidated buildings used as classrooms and the unhindered and unmonitored access to dormitories, effectively exposing them to rape and other dangers such as snakes,” said Desiree van der Walt, provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance, on Friday.
Van der Walt said that while there were two male security guards guarding the girls’ dormitory, their presence was inappropriate.
“This is unacceptable because these girls walk undressed when they take their morning baths,” Van der Walt said. She said the children were bathing in cold water because the geysers were broken.
She said two pupils had said they had been denied access to class and denied food in the dining hall as their school fees were outstanding.
“As a public school, it is wrong for this school to send learners away because they have no money for fees. It’s even worse to refuse them the most basic of human needs, food,” added Van der Walt.
“I will be writing to the South African Human Rights Commission asking them to investigate (the matter),” she said.