A task team in Mpumalanga has established that there are more than a 100 illegal schools operating in the province. The team consists of officials from different provincial departments.

It is probing the cause of deaths of initiates in the Nkangala district. Preliminary findings show that the initiates died of excessive bleeding, dehydration and hypothermia.

Earlier this week the ANC in Parliament turned down some political parties’ call to appoint an independent commission of inquiry into the cause of the deaths.

Mpumalanga provincial cabinet spokesperson, Madala Masuku, says the PEC has resolved that regulatory measures should be put in place.

“The schools haven’t been shut down because in the initial process. They have set up what they call the Ingoma forum and each time there are challenges to manage the situation. What they have agreed upon was that no because the initiates are already there and the process is actually going.

“What we need to do is to extend the monitoring of the situation to those particular schools that we have identified and currently that’s what the departments are actually doing to assist all those particular schools. So that we don’t experience any other deaths,” says Masuku.
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