Over 300 learners at Mutwarantja Primary School in the Kavango East Region have missed nearly three weeks of classes due to proper toilet facilities.

Overcrowded classrooms, a lack of proper furniture, inadequate financial resources, and insufficient infrastructure development remain a challenge to many schools in Erongo, contributing to high failure rates.
 

Days before school reopens, the Joy Mungungu Senior Primary School at Rundu is left without functional toilets.

This comes after the donor pulled out due to a breach of the agreement.

The primary school was established by community members before government intervention. 

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Youth, Civic Relations and Community Development has praised the Education Ministry for its investment in infrastructure, ensuring that rural schools are not neglected.

Deputy Executive Director in the Ministry of Education, Edda Bohn, is reiterating that those who enrolled their children in unregistered schools should take them to formal government schools. 

The Deputy Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts, and Culture, Dino Ballotti, recently visited Kavango West, where he was briefed on the pressing challenges facing the region's education sector.

The Otjozondjupa Regional Education Directorate is working to secure school placements for 921 learners, with Grade 1, Grade 8, and Grade 10 being the most affected.

A contractor has blocked a sewerage pond at Max Makushe Secondary School in the Kavango East Region due to what they regard as outstanding payments by the Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture.

The school has since suspended classes due to sewerage overflow.

A local company, South Haven Commodities, has stepped up to rehabilitate the borehole of Dr. Fischer Primary School in the Aminuis Constituency which has been dysfunctional since last year.

Strong winds blew off the roofs of three blocks at Ekango-Linene Combined School in Etayi Circuit, Omusati Region.

The damage occurred to the block that accommodates approximately 100 Grade 3 learners.