Almost 20,000 Gauteng children are still seeking places in schools
There are still 19,000 children who have not found spaces in schools across Gauteng‚ education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Thursday. He told reporters in Johannesburg that there were still 7,000 of the initial 58,000 late applications from last year that were still unplaced. And there are also more than 12,000 new applications that still need placement. Lesufi said the department was doing all it could to ensure that the overflow of pupils into the province was accommodated and that no learner would be turned away. "In the month of January‚ we received a total of 12,821 completely new applications‚" said Lesufi. Since the beginning of the academic year‚ the department has been able to place 51,000 pupils in schools. "We have had no choice but to pursue schools to take extra learners and it wasn’t easy‚" said Lesufi. Lesufi said the department had assigned officials to open operation centres to deal with the waiting list and attend to those who need placements. "We want to encourage o...
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