UPDATE: Job Rathebe Jnr Secondary schooling crisis

Normal classes continue at Job Rathebe Jnr Secondary school, in Orlando East despite chaotic scenes on the first day as schools reopened for third schooling term.

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The School Governing Body (SGB) and parents shut down the school on Tuesday morning affecting teaching and learning citing their dissatisfaction with the “appalling conditions” the institution.

They called on Department of Gauteng Education (DGE) in particular the MEC of Education in the province Panyaza Lesufi to intervene and remove the current principal alleging that she had not been reporting for duty on number of occasion.

Further issues raised by the SBG include the lack of leadership at school management level, governance, infrastructure, security as some of the pertaining issues that led to the school shut down.

A meeting between SGB, Provincial Education, District officials, community members and Unions resolved to form a task team to investigate the grievances within the next 14 days.

Dennis Makwakwa, Gauteng Basic Education Department shared that the department has appointed a service provider to start with the fixing of facilities, and further said the department would be appointing a care taker principal.

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“That person will be from my office because I have taken to work with the school and support in ensuring that there is stability in the school,” he addressed the media outside the school.

Makwakwa admitted that some of the issues raised during the meeting were areas that the department should have handled differently but assured everyone that the task team would be working around the clock to ensure that they solve some of the issues, promising to give parents an update post the 14 days.

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