Pupils taught in storeroom as school struggles with overcrowding
Like any typical storeroom, this one at Elsie Ngidi Primary School in Tshiawelo, Soweto, has high, tiny windows that allow little ventilation, risking transmission of Covid-19 as some of the grade 1 pupils are not wearing their masks properly
17 February 2022 - 09:02
As temperatures swell into the late 20s, the heat becomes so unbearable that the drenched teacher decides to stop the lesson conducted from a crammed school storeroom to allow her 39 pupils to get fresh air outside.
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