Angry learners from the Rivoni school for the Blind in Limpopo have been blocking roads since Sunday, vowing not to go back to classes until an actual plan for new classroom and accommodation is set in motion.
The learners have been using mobile classrooms while waiting for proper rooms which were promised to them in 2016m by the Department of Education.
A Grade 11 learner Fhedzisani Mudau said government does not care about the kind of environment they are forced to attend under.
"We are forced to use these dilapidated mobile classrooms to call our school and dilapidated buildings as our homes. We do not even have proper blankets. Imagine almost everyone who attends school here has got specials needs" she said.
Another learner told the media that their toilets were broken and that the grass next to the boys' residence was so long that there was a danger of snakes.
The protesting learners have blocked the R578 and D3831 roads leading to Elim Hospital forcing locals to use other alternative roads.
Provincial Department of Education spokesperson Sam Makondo said that the design of a new school to accommodate blind and partially blind learners had been finalized and the project will be going to tender soon.
Rivoni School for the blind was established in 2006 and is the brainchild of Rivoni Society for the Blind, which was founded in 1975 at Elim Hospital by the late Swiss doctor, Erwin Sutter.
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The Department of Correctional Services offered the services of prisoners to paint the walls of the school as part of Mandela Day Celebrations last year.
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