MORE than 200 children at Mucklenuck Primary School in Bubi district walk at least 25km to school and learn in a farmhouse without desks and chairs, Southern Eye has learnt.
BY MTHANDAZO NYONI
Mucklenuck Primary School is located in a resettlement area created under the chaotic land reform programme.
A Southern Eye news crew on Thursday visited the area and witnessed lack of development at the school established in the late 2000s.
Village head Themba Gumbo described the situation as “dire” for children growing up in the area.
“We need proper education facilities as we have only one primary school.
“For secondary education, our children are forced to travel for about 50km daily,” Gumbo said.
“Plans are there to build a secondary school and a clinic, but funds are always a stumbling block. We believe government and donors might help.”
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Gumbo also lamented the water crisis in the area saying villagers travelled long distances to access the precious liquid as there was one borehole servicing about 200 homesteads.
He appealed to donors and the government to assist by drilling more boreholes and constructing dams in the district to save them and their livestock.
Gumbo said there was no clinic in his village and they had to depend on Inyathi Hospital, which was far.
Gumbo appealed to the government to supply villagers with farming inputs like fertilisers.
“Villagers need farming inputs and if government can chip in I believe poverty would be a thing of the past,” Gumbo said.
A number of villagers in the area depend on illegal mining for a living.
They were resettled in 2000 following government’s massive land reform programme.
Since then, no school or clinic has been built.
