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The leader of the March and March movement, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma
The leader of the March and March movement, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, says at least 40 children of the 2022 flood victims are not going to school because they haven’t been enrolled at the nearby Addington Primary School in Durban.
She says they’ve been put on a waiting list.
Ngobese-Zuma says the government placed these pupils at schools in Greyville, with parents unable to pay for transport and the school fees.
Speaking at a picket outside the school, Ngobese Zuma says if government thought the schools in Greyville are accessible, it should have placed learners of foreign nationals there.
“We still are not happy with the response from the Department of Education, who have claimed that they have placed the children at schools. As I’m talking right now the children are still at home because the parents have explicitly made it clear that they can’t afford to take their children to the other side of town. These are parents who have been displaced during the floods, and they don’t work. They’re at home.W e want to know when the department was suggesting that they go to Greyville, what was their solution. You can’t solve a problem by creating another problem.” – Reporting by Celumusa Zulu
WATCH | Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, March and March Organiser, says fighting for the rights of South Africans is not xenophobia and the march at Addington Primary School is about justice and not meant to disrupt schooling. pic.twitter.com/H6THyUCEWw
— SABC News (@SABCNews) January 21, 2026
