This article has been supplied and will be available for a limited time only on this website. Two public schools in Nelson Mandela Bay desperately trying to stay afloat amid severe water-supply challenges have received a lifeline as the countdown to the year-end exams begins.
Crumbling infrastructure and crippling water cuts in the Metro have severely impacted the ability of Motherwell and Douglas Mbopa high schools to provide an environment conducive to learning.
Even though access to water is a basic human right in South Africa, they are among more than 3 600 schools without water or that are buckling under crumbling infrastructure and high water bills.
Besides this affecting sanitation, feeding programmes so crucial to many of these communities also suffer as a result of water-related issues.
When the Gqeberha schools’ pleas to the Department of Education and city fathers went unanswered, the governing bodies approached private-sector company Coega Steels for assistance.
