R30m school handed over to Mqanduli staff, pupils

NEW BEGINNINGS: Education MEC Mandla Makupula officially handed over a R30-million brick and mortar school to teachers, parents and pupils of Upper Ngqungqu Junior Secondary in Mqanduli yesterday Picture: SIKHO NTSHOBANE
NEW BEGINNINGS: Education MEC Mandla Makupula officially handed over a R30-million brick and mortar school to teachers, parents and pupils of Upper Ngqungqu Junior Secondary in Mqanduli yesterday Picture: SIKHO NTSHOBANE
For years pupils at Upper Ngqungqu Junior Secondary School had to use old prefabricated structures as classrooms after their peers vandalised their school.

Yesterday that all came to an end as education authorities handed over a brick and mortar school – complete with labs and libraries.

For several years, parents, pupils and teachers had campaigned to have education authorities build them a proper school – to no avail.

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