MOSSEL BAY NEWS - For the second time this year, barely a month apart Ridgeview Primary School was set back due to issues regarding sanitation at the school.
On the first day of school, 13 January, the more than 1000 learners were sent home due to ablution facilities being too badly vandalized to be utilized (Mossel Bay Advertiser, 15 January). As reported (Mossel Bay Advertiser, 19 February), following a meeting on Monday 15 February, unhappy parents congregated at the school on Tuesday, 16 February demanding answers from the WCED as to when promised repair work will be done at the school.
The ongoing vandalism is said to be the result of inadequate fencing at the school, giving wrongdoers free access to the property. Despite security guards deployed at the school, the latest incident of vandalism occurred during the first weekend in February.
The principal of the school, Mr Francois Visagie confirmed upon enquiry this week, that the necessary repair work to the ablutions commenced last week Wednesday, 17 February. He also confirmed that a contractor has been appointed and that some of the promised structural work has commenced.
"A contractor has visited the school in view of the planned and approved erection of the fence. However, despite our queries sent to the Department, we still do not have a confirmed date as to when construction of the fence will start," Visagie told the Advertiser on Wednesday.
The WCED, in their official comment stated that construction regarding the fencing is to commence end of February and March. The Department also stated earlier that they cannot invest in additional permanent infrastructure until the fence is erected.
Click here for previous articles:
- Fed up parents disrupt school
- Update: Sanitation crises at Ridgeview
- Sanitation crises continues at Ridgeview
- Tydelike verligting vir sanitasie-krises
- Ablution crisis ruins first school day
- Relief arrives Ridgeview Primary
- Learners sent home again
- Update: Primary school sends learners home
- Primary school sends learners home
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