TEACHING and learning resumed at Nqundu Combined School in Nkandla following a week’s stand-off between the community and the Department of Education.
The reason for the dispute is that parents demand the addition of Grades 11 and 12 classes.
Nqundu Combined offers classes from Grade R to Grade 10 only, and parents accuse the department of failing to honour its earlier promises of adding the extra classes.
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Since Monday last week parents, with the assistance of the community, locked the school gates to stop the registration process and vowed to continue with protests until the department meets their demands.
On Friday, Department of Education officials, led by the MEC for Education, Kwazi Mshengu, met with the disgruntled residents at the school.
According to reports Shengu promised the community that his department would provide the school with mobile classrooms to accommodate Grade 11 learners.
More mobile classrooms would be provided later in the year for Grade 12 pupils.
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