In the last week, skelms have broken into WD Hendricks Primary School twice stealing goods worth R2300 and causing R5000 worth of damage.
Staff got a skrik last Friday when they arrived at school to find the food storeroom ransacked.
Principal Natalie Roman says 85 cans of tinned fish, which were donated by the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA), and items from the tuckshop were stolen.
She says the food would have fed more than 300 children for the entire term.
It appears the skelms used garden tools to gain access to the storeroom.
The incident was reported to police.
Roman says on Monday, they arrived to find that the skelms had returned and accessed the administration building.
“In one of the classrooms they wrote on the white board ‘My naam is Ou Buta’. Then they realised it is a permanent kokie and tried to erase it. That board is messed up and now needs to be replaced. We also found that on the windows they wrote their names like Waga and Tan and even a 28s tag.”
Roman says earlier this year skelms also broke into the school and stole all the compu- ters in the computer lab.
Western Cape Education Department (WCED) spokesperson, Millicent Merton, says in the second burglary, the skelms stole a projector and damaged a ceiling.
“The estimated costs of the damage and loss is R5 000. The school has an alarm system linked to armed response,” she says.
The school is now appealing to anyone with information to contact Kensington police on 021 594 7020.
monique.duval@inl.co.za