MWEZENI SENIOR PRIMARY SCHOOL
LOCATED 60km from Mthatha in the rural village of Kulogcorha in the Mbashe Local Municipality:
There are 258 children at the school, from Grade R to Grade 6;
Most of the parents are unemployed;
The school was founded in 1991 and originally consisted of two community-built rondavels;
In 2007 the community built a block of four mud-structure schools to cater for the growing number of children;
Three permanent classes were built in 2009;
In 2011 rains virtually destroyed all the mud structures; and
The provincial Department of Education is in the process of erecting seven prefabricated classrooms.
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