MLUMATI: Government has now began the construction of a bridge after this Swaziland News published a story that exposed how teachers and students were made to cross the crocodile infested Mlumati river to school.
Chief Ndlaluhlaza Ndwandwe, the Minister of Public Works and Transport had not responded to our questionnaire at the time of compiling this report.
Speaking to this publication, Ntombemhlophe Dlamini,the School Committee Chairperson at Lufafa Primary School expressed her excitement that the bridge would be completed soon.
“This will save our children and their teachers from the dangers they have been exposed in the river where some lost books,some sustain injuries and become exposed to pneummonia and other waterborne diseases,” she said.
Government now constructing Mlumati bridge.