During its presentation at the South African Human Rights Commission’s provincial investigative inquiry into, the department said that it has been allocated only 1.24 billion rand to build new schools and refurbish others.
The South African Human Rights Commission’s provincial investigative enquiry follows numerous allegations of non-compliant infrastructure in various schools in the province. Complaints raised by various stakeholders, including school governing bodies and teachers’ unions, highlighted deteriorating buildings, shortages of classrooms, asbestos fixtures, and a lack of access to sufficient water and basic sanitation.
Another person adds, “Learners from grade r share a toilet with learners from grade 7 so I think the department of education from the head to the district level need the commission to intervene and assist because if the head is not functioning how will the body function.”The provincial manager of the Human Rights Commission, Osmond Mngomezulu, says such complaints led the Commission to conduct its own investigations. “It’s a worrying picture.
Acting chief director for infrastructure at the Department of Education, Shela Makwela, elaborates. “We have 644 complaints or needs that we have received and at the current moment we don’t have sufficient budget to address those. However, we are at a point where we are also looking at equitable share to see if we cannot really get from equitable share… so we are allocated 1.
It's incompetence talking and being in positions they don't even know nothing about, just thrown around due to being a comrade, their qualification is comradeship, hence nothing is going right in South Africa 💔😥