Tlakula High left without taps and basins in bathrooms
The school’s toilets were vandalized and taps were stolen during the festive season.
KwaThema – Learners are left without basins and taps following a break in at Tlakula High School.
The school’s toilets were vandalised and taps and basins were stolen during the festive season.
School principal Nonhlanhla Thembekwayo says she is very disappointed.
“I think the community needs to be reminded that the schools which are located in townships are also their responsibility.
“It is their job as well to ensure the school premises are secured during our absence because without education our children are doomed.
“It is very saddening that with other challenges we are facing we now have to budget for new basins and taps as well, and in the meantime our learners have to use the bathrooms without water or basins,” says Thembekwayo.
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She is also appealing to the community to come forward with any relevant information.
“It is impossible that such horrible acts could take place without the community neither seeing nor hearing anything,” she explains.
The school’s life orientation, consumer studies and creative arts head of department, Zanele Thamane, says the school demarcation is proving to be a problem.
“I wish we had our own demarcation because right now the school fence is vandalised and learners are sneaking out through it during school time.
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“We have also noted that the community doesn’t care about our learners, with taverns in the surrounding area not respecting us during exams and school hours.
“The same child we wish to see become successful is the same child who will come to school on Monday drunk,” says Thamane.
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