Gauteng education dept still looking for places for 250 pupils

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Monday that the department had 250 learners who still needed to be placed at a school for the 2018 academic year.

Schooling started on January 17 but Lesufi tweeted: “By the 15th (February) all learners will be placed. We only left with less 250 learners from 37 000 learners. So there’s hope.”

Lesufi said this in response to a tweet of someone who mentioned that his niece still needed to be placed in Soshanguve, in Pretoria.

Last week, the department of education said that they still had 3 366 learners that still needed to be placed at a school.

– African News Agency (ANA)

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