North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Education and Sports Development, Arts, Culture and Traditional has received a request from the Department of Education and Sports Development for the postponement  of the meeting that was to be held on Tuesday 1 September, 2015, due to the fact that the department was not ready to submit the report.

The Committee had requested a comprehensive report from the Department of Education and Sports Development after an incident that occurred at North West School for the Deaf in the early hours of Monday morning where a fire gutted down the school hostel leaving three (3) learners dead and 53 others being hospitalised  after suffering minor injuries. It also requested the department to present a comprehensive report on the Christiana School for the Blind incident where a fire broke down at the school on the 29 November 2010, leaving four (4) learners dead.

The request has been granted by the Committee and the date for the next meeting will be communicated before the end of the week.

-TDN

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