Lesufi: Everest Primary to compete with the best private schools

Lesufi: Everest Primary to compete with the best private schools

Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi says the newly-built Everest Primary in Westbury is no ordinary school.


Everest Primary school
GDE

Lesufi was speaking at the unveiling of the new school on the first day of the 2018 academic year.


"We are not opening just an ordinary school. We are opening a school that has child care facilities that can never be matched by private schools. We are opening a school with laboratories. We are opening a school where there are properly constituted dining halls, chairs and tables so they can sit there and eat."


The has been opening a new school in the province every month since 2014.


"We have been opening a new school every month and this is the 42nd school we have opened," Lesufi said.


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The school cost some R97 million to build.


Everest Primary was previously built using asbestos, something Lesufi says they are on course to eradicate.


"We have 21 schools that were built using asbestos. We take responsibility to eradicate them.


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"But those that built these schools and felt their children deserve brick and mortar, our children deserve asbestos, you got it wrong," Lesufi said. "All these 21 schools built with asbestos by the time we leave our political office, all these asbestos schools will fall and proper schools will be built."


A contractor has been appointed to rebuild another school built using asbestos, Noordgesig Primary School.

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