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Eastern Cape Education MEC, Mandla Makupula, will be visting several schools in Port Elizabeth's Northern Areas next week.
He will be meeting school principals and school governing bodies to discuss a range of issues affecting schools, including teacher shortages and lack of support staff at some schools.
The visit is being coordinated through the Parliamentary Constituency Office of MPL, Christian Martin.
He says they've embarked on what he described a mission to remedy the situation at schools.
A letter to MEC Makupula from the acting principal of the Chatty Secondary School highlighted teacher shortages at five schools, while also noting the shortage of support staff at four others.
The principals issued an urgent appeal to MEC Makupula to fill the vacant posts, employ security schools affected by break-ins and vandalism while also calling for more police patrols around schools.
