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Poetic Licence: While We Wait for the Schools

IOL · 28 August 2026 at 09:50

Poetic Licence: While We Wait for the Schools

There is something deeply unsettling about a government spending R1.45 billion on mobile classrooms while knowing that Gauteng needs roughly 200 new schools.

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