Lucas Ledwaba
Scores of learners from 11 Limpopo schools will now have to play catch up after their learning was interrupted by a three week community shut down protest over a road during May.
Residents of ward 33 in the Fetakgomo Tubatse municipality of Limpopo embarked on a shutdown of services including schools in the area on May 14, demanding that government give them an undertaking on when it would commence on constructing a tar road on the D4180 road.
The road cuts through more than 15 villages between Sefateng and Mandaagshoek in the Sekhukhune district. Eight primary schools and three high schools were shut due to the protest action, which included the blockading of the D4180.
Spokesperson for the community task team that led the protest, Seloana Sekgobela, said the community had resolved there would be no schooling in the area in a bid to get the provincial government to attend to
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