The 2020 academic year has kicked off with a bang, with a number of Tembisa-based schools treating this day as a normal teaching and learning day.
The only school that nearly experienced problems is the Entshonalanga Primary School where local people wearing EFF T-shirts and regalia barricaded the school’s gates preventing local ward councillors from entering.
Many local primary school educators had their hands full as they welcomed first-time learners who some seemed terrified while other looked jovial for being at school for the first time in their lives.
“I am not scared and I am not going to cry,” said first-time learner little Bunhle Nkuna who was accompanied by her mother at the Endulwini Primary School.
She said she wants to become a nurse just like her mother when she finishes school.
Tembisa-based police were deployed throughout the township to monitor the school’s reopening proceedings.
The Rabasotho police spokesperson, Capt Ralidzhivha Manyadza, said there were no incidents reported, suggesting that the first schooling day went ahead without any glitches.
