About 8 000 Gauteng pupils still not placed - Lesufi
9 January 2019
About 8 000 pupils in Gauteng have not yet been placed in schools, Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Wednesday at the opening of a school in Tsakane.
"We had 24 000 [pupils who were not placed] by yesterday (Tuesday). Of the 24 000, this morning almost 11 700 were given spaces and they went in classrooms and have started to learn," he said.
He promised that the remaining pupils would be placed by the end of January.
"There will be no single learner that will be at home in Gauteng," he vowed.