Employees at Kutsakeni Main say these boreholes on the faculty dried up in 2021. Now the college has requested learners to contribute R150 yearly to fill their water tanks. Photographs: Thembi Siaga
Every year, dad and mom at a college in Gandlanani village, exterior Giyani, Limpopo are requested to contribute R150 in direction of refilling the college’s water tanks.
There are two boreholes at Kutsakeni Main, however workers say they dried up in 2021.
Mother or father Randzu Macebe informed GroundUp, “We’re frightened as a result of the school rooms are in dangerous situation, aside from the administration block. The varsity doesn’t have [running] water, and learners should pay R150 a yr to help the college to purchase water.”
The varsity has just below 400 learners and is overcrowded.
SGB chair, January Baloyi, mentioned the college spends about R4,000 every month to refill the water tanks. He acknowledged that some dad and mom can’t afford to, particularly these counting on social grants.
Beside their water troubles, Kutsakeni Main was badly broken throughout a storm that hit Giyani in October. It broken the college’s already dilapidated and previous buildings. The partitions of most lecture rooms have cracks, and flooring have holes in them. Because of this, meals at the moment are cooked in an off-the-cuff zinc construction on the premises.
Members of the SGB say they’ve written to the Limpopo Division of Training about these points quite a few instances for greater than ten years. The members we spoke to mentioned over time they’ve tried, however failed, to entry underground water by drilling at completely different spots.
A letter pleading for pressing intervention from the schooling division dated 24 October 2024 was signed by the principal, two SGB members and the village’s Chief Mkhacani Nhlaniki.
They urged the division to handle the state of affairs and for officers to go to the college as quickly as potential, citing the security of learners and workers as a priority.
Limpopo schooling division spokesperson, Mosebjane Kgaffe mentioned that after the college first complained concerning the situations, they supplied three cellular lecture rooms in 2019.
Requested concerning the current harm brought on by the October storm, Kgaffe mentioned just one roof had been severely broken and that Public Works had been contacted to help with repairs. However we noticed extra broken infrastructure throughout our go to to the college.
Kgaffe mentioned that the college is on the division’s precedence listing for upgrades so as to meet nationwide norms and requirements.
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