Gauteng Education promises makeshift classrooms for unplaced learners

Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane said that in cases where it's necessary, makeshift structures will be built in schools that may be full to accommodate learners who are yet to be placed.

This comes as some parents anxiously wait for their children to be placed.

Frustrated parents waited in snaking queues for a second day in a row outside the district offices at the Department of Education in Meyersdal in a final attempt to get their children placed before the school year starts on Wednesday.

Chiloane said that the department is ready for the start of the school year.

" We are going to be putting learners into temporary stations in certain schools while we are concluding satellite schools that are closer to them. They are not satellites but new schools. We are able to demonstrate that we are going to build brick and mortar, it’s just that where we find ourselves, the children are many, and we need to make sure they are in school."