Relebogile to be re-opened
The Gauteng Department of Education plans to re-open the damaged Relebogile Secondary School in Khutsong South.
A sinkhole collapsed under the school on 9 February. Luckily, no learners were at school because the student union Cosas (Congress of South African Students) had kept them away since the day before after warning of “unhealthy, unsafe and unstable infrastructure” at the school.
Since then, the learners have attended classes at Khutsong South Primary School. According to the parents, however, only Gr. 11 and Gr. 12 attend every day.
Learners in the lower grades platoon, and classes continue over weekends.
Meanwhile, a task team comprising parents, community leaders and government institutions like the municipality are working to ensure that mobile classrooms are erected on the open ground opposite the school.
According to two task team members, Mr Andile Mthembu and Ms Nozipho Moremongwe, they want the learners to move to the mobile classrooms at this temporary school at the start of the second term.
The church that owns the land availed the space for this purpose temporarily.
“About 18 mobile classrooms are at the identified site. More units will arrive in due course,” says Mr Steve Mabona, the spokesperson of the Gauteng Department of Education,
Mabona also shed more light on the future of the damaged school building.”We will rehabilitate the current school, and we plan to open the school in the second term of 2023,” he told the Herald this week.
