Community welcomes new school
While welcoming the development of the new school, it is very disappointing that after ten years the school only will consist of mobile containers and not a proper brick structure.
After many years the promise to provide a school finally seems to be on the doorstep for the community of Munsieville.
The new school, which is earmarked for Munsieville Extension 4, has been welcomed by the community even if mobile containers will take the place of a proper structure.
“I am happy that the children will not have to walk long distances to school, which is on the other side of Extension 4,” states Democratic Alliance PR Councillor Lawrence Shabalala.
“In a letter titled Bad planning leads to Unhappy Residents published in the 4 June 2013 edition of the NEWS I emphasised the fact that even though residents could access government services, they were extremely unhappy about the difficulty thereof.”
Shabalala hopes this development will pave the way for the Provincial Department of Health to build a clinic in Extension 4, which would be far more accessible to residents.
While welcoming the development of the new school, he feels that it is very disappointing that after ten years the school only will consist of mobile containers and not a proper brick structure.
“Instead of a modern school with up-to-date technology, tiled toilets and grassed playing fields, the community will be given a few mobile containers. This is really frustrating considering that Nkandla was upgraded for millions. That expenditure could have been used to build proper schools in many towns and villages across the country,” argues Shabalala.
According to Shabalala the best way for residents of Mayibuye to say thank you would be, when going to the polls on the 7 May, to remember that the Nkandla upgrade prevented their children from having a proper school built of bricks.
