Early childhood development in crisis, warns MMC

Phalatse made the comments after leading raids on illegal preschools in Westdene on Wednesday.

The raid comes shortly after two preschool children died earlier this month after apparently eating rat poison at a privately-owned day care centre in the area.
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“There is an ECD crisis in the country. The fact that government is not offering early childhood development in the same way that we do with basic education is a crisis on its own,” said Phalatse.

A total of five preschools were visited by the MMC, with two issued with notices to close down. 

“We have issued two notices for intention to close down facilities and we have issued other facilities with notices on what they need to put in place,” Phalatse said.