RUST-TER-VAAL. – The inconsistency at the site of the new Rust-Ter-Vaal Secondary School has once again gotten the entire community up in arms. During a protest last week, students, teachers and the Principal of the school said that they demand a new school immediately as a matter of urgency. The protest was held at the site of the incomplete school. School Principal Richard Van Rensburg said that the teachers and learners were frustrated at the old building. “The school is really in a bad state. There is no electricity, the building is in a state of collapse, learners are cold and there is no proper infrastructure.” Van Rensburg said that the new school was meant to be handed over in February this year. Since the beginning of the project in 2018, it has been riddled with a great deal of discrepancies and people working on the project sometimes neglecting the work as a result of not getting paid. While this happens, learners have to continue being taught in the old dilapidated asbestos building that has been said to be unsafe for a number of years now. In February this year, a ceiling in one of the classrooms collapsed while school was still in session. “We took a stance and went down to the site of the new school. If they want us to compete with the best schools, they must give us a proper school so that our learners have a better chance” As a result of the state of the current building of Rust-Ter-Vaal Secondary School, teachers have left the school and some are threatening to leave. This is not the first protest that has taken place in Rust-Ter-Vaal pertaining  the school project.