High school stolen brick by brick as vandals plunder
Cape Town residents say the buildings have been dismantled and the bricks sold for as little as 50c
24 October 2022 - 20:24
Lorna Balata-Peters sometimes weeps as she walks on the road where her former school, Uitsig Secondary, once stood. She attended the Cape Town school in the late 1990s, but since then it has been stripped to its foundations...
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