Schools re-opening for 2018 - Eastern Cape

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Channel: SABC News · 2018 · News & Politics

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As a new school year begins thousands of children living with disabilities will again this year not be able to go to school.
As many as 70 percent of children with disabilities countrywide will not be placed in special needs schools due to a lack of space in suitable schools. 
One of the most affected provinces is the Eastern Cape with over three-thousand children with special needs currently out of school.
Our reporter Lerato Thipa, is at one of the schools which caters for such children.

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