NEW CLASSROOMS BEGIN TO CRUMBLE

MPUMALANGA’S eagerness to beat its classroom backlog has backfired, with scores of its new classrooms crumbling less than three years after they were built. At least one R500 _000 school near Nelspruit is so damaged it has been abandoned altogether and is now being used by gangs of truant youths for smoking and sex parties. The government has meanwhile been forced to spend millions building a replacement school next door to the crumbling Mandlesive High School. Reports have named three schools where classrooms had already collapsed. – African Eye News Service