FOOD RUNS OUT AT SCHOOLS AGAIN

LOBAMBA – It was the last meal for some schools, while others will continue having meals until the end of the month. 

This is the situation in some of the primary schools around the country. In a mission to find out about the current prevailing situation in schools, this reporter established that some of the schools will soon run out of food, while some have no food already.

Mantombi Dlamini, a cook at Esitjeni Primary School was found preparing the last meal for the pupils which was samp and beans (umcushu).
Dlamini said she currently served over 350 pupils and had no idea what would happen next as the children were used to eating at school.

According to Dlamini some pupils were not provided with pocket money and solely depended on the school for food. “Honestly, I do not know how they are going to survive as this meal is the last one,” Dlamini said.
She said the school had run out of maize-meal, rice and samp. Currently, Dlamini said she had two bags of beans remaining and would not cook them alone.

“There is no cooking oil, onions or tomatoes,” she said.
Dlamini said when the school hasd enough food they usually alternated between cooking maize-meal with beans, rice and beans or samp and beans.
She said the school did not provide any meat but instead pupils changed with cabbage sometimes. According to Dlamini, a bag of beans lasted a week.
The head teacher, Khetsiwe Dlamini, said pupils would not have any meals from today going forward.

Khetsiwe said the school, which recently hosted a hand over project for a borehole from the US Embassy, had left over food from the event.
However, she said the food would be reserved for June 21, when the deworming exercise is carried out by the ministry of health in schools around the country.
Meanwhile, Elangeni Primary School has foodstuff to last them until the end of the month. The Head teacher at the school, Bheki Mahlalela, said they had very minimum foodstuff remaining in their store tanks.
Mahlalela said the school had not received food this term and last received it towards the end of the first term after not receiving it for a very long time.
He said they had cut down the scale on meals provided to the pupils to try and save the food. “We used to serve meals for the pupils during breakfast and lunch but they are now only served one meal during lunch,” Mahlalela said.
He said they substituted the beans with some of the vegetables from the school garden, which is why they still had surplus food.
 

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