Parents threaten to close schools in Limpopo
Updated | By Maidi Monareng
Parents at the Mahwetse Secondary School in Limpopo have vowed to halt classes in Ga-Masemola.
They are threatening to shut schools if the provincial education department does not provide more classrooms.
They say classes are overcrowded.
School governing body member, Louis Nchabeleng, says the community built extras classrooms with money from their own pockets.
"There are two buildings. One building has four classrooms. The community built one with their own money," says Nchabeleng.
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The provincial department of education's Naledzani Rasila says they have received the community's memorandum of grievances and will report back in two weeks.
"According to the memorandum, they are requesting that we provide feedback within 14 days and that is what we are going to do," says Rasila.
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