Heated exchange between community members, GDE officials at Nigel school

JOHANNESBURG - There’s been a heated exchange between community members and officials of the Gauteng Department of Education at the Alra Park Primary School in Nigel on Monday.

Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane is visiting the school after protests last week by learners and parents.

They’re unhappy about the school’s aging infrastructure.

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The MEC is currently in a closed meeting with the infrastructure crisis committee.

Before the meeting between Chiloane and the infrastructure care crisis committee started, community activist Golden Miles Bhudu stormed in to speak to the MEC.

Some members of the committee tried to remove him, saying he shouldn’t be in the meeting because he is not part of the committee.

Police have been called in to diffuse the situation.

The meeting will be followed with a walkabout of the school.