More than 18 000 Western Cape pupils not yet placed
11 January 2017
Cape Town - More than 18 000 pupils between Grades 1 and 12 have not yet been placed in schools, Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer said on Wednesday.
But the provincial education department would meet its legal responsibility to place them all as soon as possible, she said during a visit to Valhalla Primary School in Elsies River.
"We will do what we can, but unfortunately there may be cases where classes are bigger than we would like. We also have mobile classrooms we have kept in reserve to allow us to use them where they are most needed," she said.
More than one million pupils made their way to schools across the province on the first day of the school year on Wednesday.