Building masters at Coalane School in Quelimane, Zambezia province, have locked classroom doors due to non-payment of salaries.

The school's classrooms have been locked for two weeks. Building masters say that their wages have not been paid since the work began.

"We closed our doors because we weren't paid our wages. We've been in this situation for about six months. The contractor, who answers to Eugenia Verosse, took the money and fled," sources told the cameras of TV Sucesso.

According to the same sources, this is not the first time that this has happened: "In 2020 we built a school in another district and they didn't pay us."

The bricklayers say the school will remain locked until their wages are paid.

As well as bricklayers, carpenters, painters, electricians and cooks were involved in the work, "all of whom have not been paid," said Lázaro Azevedo, a carpenter on the site.

At the moment, the school only has three classrooms, and seven classes are unable to attend, at a time when the school year has just started.

The masters say that they have even approached the government authorities to find a solution to the problem, but have had no success.

"That's why, as long as they don't pay us our money, the school will remain locked," they said.