Gauteng Education MEC condemns the burning of furniture at Eastbank High School [SOUND]

# Gauteng Education MEC, Lebogang Maile, has strongly condemned the burning of school furniture and disruption of teaching and learning at Eastbank High School in Alexandra. Four desks and two chairs were destroyed by a fire on the school premises yesterday. The department’s spokesperson, Onwabile Lubhelwana, says the school illustrates the significant capacity pressures confronting parts of the provincial education system. He says the school was built to accommodate approximately one-thousand-200 learners but currently has two-thousand-63 learners: