After six days with its doors shut, classes have resumed on Wednesday at Japhet Haiyambo Primary School and Hompa Sophia Junior Primary School at Rundu.

The two schools were both temporarily closed following a sewarage blockage, and broken ablution facilities.

Documentation suggests the school has faced this problem since last year, with a town council investigation done stating that learners were forced to defecate behind the toilet blocks or on the toilet floors, given the state of disrepair of the ablution facilities.

Neither school has a functional plumbing system, with no running water in any of the learners' toilets.

Classes were finally suspended at both on 28 January for the directorate of education to attend to the matter.

Kupembona says the Rundu Town Council, particularly its division for public and environmental health, is meant to ensure that public institutions operate under hygienic conditions.

Learners here have missed six days of school due to the suspension of classes.

Attempts to reach out to Kavango East Regional Director of Education, Christine Shilima, to hear how the lost time is to be made up, were unsuccessful.