Vandals scupper school
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Vandals scupper school

HORRIFIC CONDITIONS: The current situation of the temporary toilets that were issued last year. Pictures: SIBULELE MTONGANA Learners and staff at Port Alfred Junior Secondary School continue to face sanitation challenges more than a year after the issue was first identified, raising concerns about learner dignity, health and the impact on teaching and learning.The situation goes back to 2024, when the Eastern Cape Department of Education MEC Bukiwe Fanta visited the school and inspected the condition of the toilets. Following the visit, the MEC promised that the toilets would be rebuilt. In 2025, the department appointed Mvula Trust as the contractor to carry out the repairs.However, the project stalled after the contractor later withdrew, forcing...
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Newsmaker: Horrific Clarendon massacre, 5.3 quake terrified nation
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Newsmaker: Horrific Clarendon massacre, 5.3 quake terrified nation

Top Stories Tamfitronics This week's featured developments as Newsmakers of the Week are last Sunday's cold-bloodied massacre of eight persons and wounding of nine others in Cherry Tree Lane, Four Paths, Clarendon, and Friday morning's 5.3 magnitude earthquake that shock the country. The nation woke up on Monday morning to the shocking news that 17 people had been indiscriminately shot, eight fatally, in a gun attack which the police have since said was linked to a longstanding feud between Jamaican criminals, and was sparked by a dispute over ill-gotten gains with roots in six previous violent incidents in Clarendon.The attack, described as one of the deadliest in recent memory, sent shockwaves across the country.Among the deceased were seven-year-old Aiden Bartley, a student of Four Paths Primary and Infant School, and three women, two of whom...
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