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Gauteng MEC requests 3 days to resolve learner placement issues.
On Monday, a group of parents from Fleurhof invaded the offices of the Johannesburg West District Education in Florida.
They are complaining that their children have no schools because they have been placed at schools that are far from their area. PM
Matome Chiloane, the MEC for Education for Gauteng, has requested that parents give him a minimum of three days to address the province’s issues with learner placement.
Point of View with Phemelo Motene spoke to the Fleurhof community leader Selby Leshaba and Director of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa [NAPTOSA’s], Basil Manuel.
Listen to the full conversation here:
Parents from Fleurhof remain gathered outside the Florida Park high school in Roodepoort.
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The angry parents are demanding placements for the learners.
They took them to the school and told them to join other learners inside classrooms. PM#KayaNews pic.twitter.com/ub8XZFg36Y
Chiloane, accompanied by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, gave a speech at the reopening of the recently renovated Kgatoentle secondary school in Garankuwa, north of Pretoria.
Over 276,000 online applicants, according to Chiloane, have been assigned to different Gauteng schools. Nevertheless, a lot of parents continue to be unhappy with the schools their kids have been assigned to, and some students are still unplaced.
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