{"id":2083,"date":"2026-01-14T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:44:46","slug":"gauteng-to-open-a-new-school-every-week-until-february-will-diepsloot-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng to Open a New School Every Week Until February \u2013 Will Diepsloot Benefit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says the provincial government will open a new school every week until February as part of efforts to expand access to quality education across the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a social media post, Lesufi said the new schools will feature modern infrastructure, including smartboards, free Wi-Fi, laboratories, libraries and sporting facilities, underscoring government\u2019s commitment to improving learning conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEducation is the future and we take it seriously,\u201d Lesufi said, adding that the programme aims to make education facilities more accessible to all communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, questions remain on whether communities such as Diepsloot \u2014 which continues to face severe school overcrowding \u2014 will directly benefit from the rollout, and whether there are concrete plans to build new schools in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative forms part of the Gauteng government\u2019s broader education drive under the banner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says the provincial government will open a new school every week until February as part of efforts to expand access to quality education across the province.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,127,73,182],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","tag-diepsloot-news","tag-gauteng-department-of-education","tag-panyaza-lesufi-news","tag-premier-panyaza-lesufi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diepslootnews.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}