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Our classrooms “will collapse on us”, says Limpopo learner (opens the original)
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Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village, Limpopo, is crumbling. The school was built nearly 40 years ago. The community has asked the education department to step in to help. Photo: Thembi Siaga “We feel abandoned. We are afraid our classrooms will collapse on us,” a grade 9 learner at Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village, Limpopo, told GroundUp. Parents and learners at Radzambo have for years complained about overcrowded classrooms, the dilapidated state of the nearly four-decade-o
Makhado plans new RDP houses but homes built in 2021 still lack water and electricity (opens the original)
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Magret Mathekga has been living in an RDP house in Tshikota without water and electricity since 2021. Photo: Thembi Siaga New state housing is being built in Tshikota, Limpopo, while people living in RDP homes built in 2021 still do not have water and electricity. GroundUp found that 100 houses in the older development do not have water and 50 of these are also without electricity. Meanwhile, the Limpopo Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (CoGHSTA) is
Children of immigrants forced to leave South African schools (opens the original)
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Children of immigrants at the repatriation centre set up at the Makhado showgrounds in Louis Trichardt. Photo: Bernard Chiguvare “All my dreams are shattered,” Quincy Nemhara told GroundUp on the phone while on his way to Zimbabwe with his mother. “The situation in South Africa is no longer bearable for me. I was the only Zimbabwean in Grade 12 at this school, so when the campaign against immigrants started, I was harassed. They called me names.” Nemhara is one of hundreds, possibly thousands, o
Zimbabwean families driven from their homes camp outside Limpopo police station (opens the original)
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Over 100 people, mostly women and children, have camped outside the Thohoyandou police station in Limpopo after they were driven out of their homes in recent weeks. Photo: Thembi Siaga Chivhayo Sinorema says he has lived in Khuvhi village, Thohoyandou, since 2009, surviving on odd jobs in construction sector, cutting wood or gardening, and sending money to support his wife and two children in Zimbabwe. Then a week ago, a mob accompanied by his landlord, told him he must leave. We spoke to Sinore
Police seen helping Limpopo residents round up and evict immigrants | News24 (opens the original)
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SAPS members appear to be assisting residents in rounding up and evicting immigrants around Louis Trichardt, GroundUp reports. On Sunday, residents of Vleifontein and the nearby villages of Maila and Kanana identified 200 people and handed them to the police. By law, only law enforcement officers may ask people for immigration or citizenship documents. “I was staying at a church with my three children when a group of people came, kicked open the door to our room and told us we had to leave,” sai
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