Norms and Standards in School infrastructure

Learners from Grades 2 & 3 crowded in a shack with out desks...Mkanzini Junior Secondary School is one of 395 'mud schools' in the Eastern Cape where buildings are dilapidated and unsafe with insufficient desks and chairs. Facilities are lacking and there is no money for maintenance. Students learn under terrible conditions. Corrugated roofs leak when it rains, when its hot the heat becomes unbearable and when its cold it is too cold to write...Mkanzini is one of the schools seeking an order compelling the Basic Education Minister to prescribe minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure...Near Port St Johns. Eastern Cape...©Zute lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre

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Learners from Grades 2 & 3 crowded in a shack with out desks...Mkanzini Junior Secondary School is one of 395 'mud schools' in the Eastern Cape where buildings are dilapidated and unsafe with insufficient desks and chairs. Facilities are lacking and there is no money for maintenance. Students learn under terrible conditions. Corrugated roofs leak when it rains, when its hot the heat becomes unbearable and when its cold it is too cold to write...Mkanzini is one of the schools seeking an order compelling the Basic Education Minister to prescribe minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure...Near Port St Johns. Eastern Cape...©Zute lightfoot / Legal Resources Centre