North West Legislature Education Committee welcomes delivery of 20 mobile classes at Morokweng Primary School
The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Education, Arts, Culture, Sports and Recreation has welcomed the delivery of 20 mobile classrooms and resumption of teaching and learning at Morokweng Primary School in Morokweng.
This came after the Portfolio Committee led by the Deputy Speaker Hon. Viola Motsumi and Acting Chairperson Hon. Papiki Babuile convened a meeting with the Department of Education, school management and school governing body where the Committee sort urgent intervention on the dilapidated school infrastructure that was not conducive for learning and teaching. Parents and school management had informed the Committee that the department had promised to built them a new school since 2012 but nothing was done.
According to a report from the department that was submitted to the Committee, 20 mobile classrooms were delivered to the school with additional two mobile classrooms that will be provided before end of the month. Furthermore, classes resumed on Wednesday 11 August 2022 with a recovery plan to cover lost classroom time and had promised to use spring break to cover the syllabus.
Hon. Motsumi said the Committee is happy with the resumption of teaching and learning as well as mobile classrooms. “When we visited the school during oversight week of the legislature, we could see that there was no school there and the infrastructure was dilapidated and no one could allow their child to attend school because it was not safe. “During the two intervention meetings with the department, school management and parents, we instructed the department to develop a comprehensive plan that will ensure that the new school is built, and that the department provide mobile classes as a temporary measure. We also needed to know how the department will cover the lost time as learners spent over a month without attending classes,” said Hon. Motsumi.
She said the Committee had also urged the department to fix its infrastructure directorate as there are too many internal quarrels that affects service delivery.
Source: Government of South Africa