Parent calls for WC Education Department to abolish online placement system after daughter rejected by 5 schools

Cape Town – Namhla Magadla, who has unsuccessfully applied for a placement to five different schools for her child, believesthe Western Cape Education Department’s school’s placement application system is failing them as parents, and she is calling on the department to abolish this system and bring back the old system.

Magadla, who is also a teacher, said she had been sent from pillar to post since her 6-year-old daughter was rejected by all five schools she had applied to, without any explanation.

‘’I stay in Kuils River and work in Kraaifontein. I, therefore, chose these schools…

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