A school in South Africa was reduced to its foundation after theives looted every single thing from the building brick-by-brick. A report published in UK’s Metro stated that Uitzig Secondary School, in Cape Town, vanished within six months of it closing in 2019. People who ransacked the once-proud institution took every single brick, window, roof tile along with all the toilets, electrics, plumbing and blackboards, the report stated.
People who ransacked the once-proud institution took every single brick, window, roof tile along with all the toilets, electrics, plumbing and blackboards.
As per the report, the thieves sold the bricks for 50c (2.5p) each and windows for R100 (£5) each.
The locals suspect was ‘drug addicts who stole the school bit-by-bit so they could sell all the materials for enough money to get a fix’, quoted by the tabloid.
According to a caretaker quoted in the report as saying, the school used to boast a grand entrance and reception area, five classroom blocks and two toilet areas, but things went downhill after ‘drug gangs took over the area’.
‘Pupils became scared and there was just constant vandalism. The school became run-down, and, in the end, it was closed down altogether,” said another person. “I do not joke when I say the day after it was closed, the thieves moved in and stole the school brick-by-brick and window-by-window until it was all gone,” the person added.
“There was nothing left except the concrete floors where the buildings used to be and now it is just a derelict open space where bad people hang out.”
One of the former students of the school, Lorna Balata-Peters said that her sporting memorabilia was on the walls and that is all gone “along with the walls themselves and the roofs and windows and even the bricks.”