Basic Education Minister battles infrastructure backlogs

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 Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, says the infrastructure backlogs in the Eastern Cape remain a huge problem for her Department.

Motshekga was speaking on Tuesday during the hand-over of the newly renovated Coega Primary School.

She said while her Department was focusing on new infrastructure to deal with the influx of new learners into schools, old infrastructure was busy collapsing.

"We are still unable to address the backlogs we have inherited, the mud schools were not built by us but inherited, because of the pressure to create more spaces we were quite slow in dealing with what we inherited and making sure that we can redress on that, especially in the Eastern Cape" he said.