Heavy rains accompanied by a strong wind blew away tents used as classrooms at the Siguruguru Primary School outside Rundu.

Acting Head of Department Marcellus Haivera says it is now becoming a daily occurrence since schools reopened in January.

The Siguruguru Primary School has 14 tents used as classrooms, accommodating about 800 learners from grades zero to seven.

Haivera says only two tents remained standing following the rainstorm on Wednesday night.

He says last week, teachers and senior learners were busy re-erecting the tents before lessons could resume.

Haveira says the school will have to buy books and other study aids that were damaged.

"Chalkboards are destroyed, learners' books are wet or destroyed, so learning and teaching today as we speak are in shambles, especially the teaching materials that we are using; they are always being destroyed. Just last week, we had to again buy exercise books for the learners, and here we are today, and these books are gone."

Last month, the Kavango East Regional Council advertised a tender for the construction of 12 classrooms at the Siguruguru Primary School.

Haivera called on the authorities to speed up the process as the situation robs children of quality teaching and learning time.

"I think in this case the leadership needs to speed up. I humbly request the regional leadership to see to it that the process is fastened; otherwise, learning and teaching for the Siguruguru learner are in jeopardy because, look, it was an emergency. Do we still call it an emergency now?"

Meanwhile, the Rundu Project School, situated at the Rundu Trade Fair Centre, was not spared by the storm either.

When our news team arrived at the school, students were busy re-erecting the blown-down tents.

The makeshift school enrolled over 1,000 learners from grades eight to 11 who could not find placement at existing schools.