Picture: North West MEC for Education, Viola Motsumi doing oversight at Tigane Secondary School in Klerksdorp
By OBAKENG MAJE
North West MEC for Education, Viola Motsumi had a consultative engagement with the community of Tigane, near Klerksdorp. This comes after they were aggrieved by the slow pace of completing Tigane Secondary School.
“The community is complaining about the slow pace, which results from payment glitches among others thus delaying affording their children quality education. Currently, learners in this community are attending at Gaenthone Secondary School.
“Due to migration to townships, this resulted in overcrowding at Gaenthone Secondary School. In our interactions with Community Liaison Officer (CLO), school principal, and School Governing Body (SGB), we assured to expedite the process,” she said.
Motsumi further said, it should not be the case that learners’ chance of obtaining quality education has to be compromised by glitches unrelated to them. She added that, it is unfair for learners’ dignity and rights to be compromised because of issues that can be sorted at a corporate level.
“I take this time to reassure the community that, a school will be afforded to them. Learners will be moved to their new school as soon as possible. Ours is to address and attend to all infrastructural challenges.
“We want our learners to have a healthy learning environment, which will give us desired results. So, we further committed to the community that, before the end of this week, the acting Chief Finance Officer (CFO) will convene a meeting with the North West Public Works and Roads department,” said Motsumi.
She said, this will address the issue of expediting the construction of Tigane Secondary School and report back to the contractor and consultants. Mostumi said learners are currently using a hybrid attendance model to accommodate overcrowding.
“The department is also attending to the water connection challenge on the temporary intervention of mobile classrooms, which are placed at Kabelano Primary School,” she concluded.
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