Learners will be without a warm meal this week at the CL Wilmot Primary School in Uitsig, Cape Town. This is after the soup kitchen at the school was targeted over the winter school holiday.

Learners will be without a warm meal this week

A community activist and Early Crime Prevention facilitator at the school, Pastor Adam Alexander, told iol (the Cape Argus) that the ingredients for the feeding scheme were stolen. This included rice, tinned fish, chicken livers, pots, an urn, electric cables and equipment.

The school can now only serve sandwiches to the learners

The school can now only serve sandwiches to the learners, instead of a warm meal. The pastor says the kids are from the poorest areas in Uitsig. Meanwhile, the WCED’s Millicent Merton has confirmed that a case has been opened with the Police.

A classroom was broken into

At the same time, a young teacher from Namaqualand has taken to TikTok to express his displeasure that his classroom was broken into during the winter school holidays. Rushphiano Lamour Cloete says stationery worth over R700 and toiletries, valued at over R400, which he had bought out of his own pocket for his learners, were stolen.

Many schools are targeted

Many schools are targeted in the Province annually during school holidays. Learners returned to school on Tuesday. Cloete says he’s saddened by this setback.