By Obakeng Maje

Mahikeng-North West Department of Education MEC Louisa Mabe announced that the department will build few schools for farm students.

“Mega Farm schools will help to reduce more challenges the department experience. Many pupils especially from rural and farm areas walk long distance before they reach their schools” Louisa Mabe said.

Mabe said this will make education and learning to be more conducive.

“We tabled our budget vote to the provincial government and we so adamant that our objectives will be reached. We know challenges encountered by teachers whereby a teacher expected to teach maybe five classes alone, so that denies other students in the maintime as they will be sitting around with nothing to do” said MEC.

According to Mabe, schools will consist of hostels where pupils will be in-house.

“Even though our budget is not that enough, we will try our level best to improve education in the province” she said.

However other political parties in the provinces does not share the same sentiment with MEC as the say education system in the province is rotten to the core.

Democratic Alliance Sello Motshwenyane said the department’s plan won’t work as that happened before.

“The department of Education strategic plan is not a solution. They did the same at a school between Vryburg and Delareyville,but that never help” Motshwenyane said.

The department will build boarding schools and said all temporary teachers who are teaching Mathematics and Physical Science will be employed in permanent basis.

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