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583 THURSDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2008
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and each province has established a unit to
manage this process. For the 2007-08 financial
year an amount of R2,4 billion has been
included in the block allocations made to
section 21 schools. Furthermore, schools
may use their own funds to buy additional
textbooks and materials.
Provinces have adopted different approaches
to the procurement and distribution of textbooks.
Two provinces make use of a
centralised private agency, which orders and
delivers on behalf of the provincial education
department, while another province has
decentralised the function directly to
schools, which make their own purchases
with funds provided. These different systems
make monitoring difficult, since there are
few transversal benchmarks that can be used
to monitor progress for all provinces.
The department is using its normal monitoring
instruments to check on the various
stages of the textbook (and LTSM) cycle,
including the preparation of catalogues, the
selection of books by schools, and the
placing of orders. However, even if all of
these processes are completed on time, the
The MINISTER OF EDUCATION:
(a) Sanitation
Province
Schools
without
sanitation
facilities as
at March
2007
Projects
completed
by provincial
depts.
2007-08
Completed
by DWAF
2007-08
provision of textbooks is still subject to the
ability of publishers to deliver on time at the
start of the year.
The department has learned from its positive
experience of textbook procurement and
distribution in implementing the National
Recovery Plan. This year, for the first time,
we have published national textbook catalogues
for selected grades to ensure greater
quality and alignment with the curriculum.
Using donor funds, we have been able to
ensure that every Grade 10 child in the
dinaledi schools has a full set of textbooks to
start the year. We rely on provinces to use
their voted funds to do likewise in every
other school.
Facilities for schools
1561. Mrs D VAN DER WALT (DA) asked
the Minister of Education:
How many schools in each province did
not have (a) sanitation, (b) water, (c)
electricity, (d) science laboratories, (e)
sports fields, (f) kitchen facilities for the
preparations of meals as at the latest
specified date for which information is
available? NW2306E
Projects
planned for
2008-09 by
provincial
depts
Planned by
DWAF
2008-09
Planned by
provincial
depts.
2009-10
Planned by
DWAF
2009-10
Eastern Cape 579 70 19 242 115 0 442
Free State 95 80 38 35 75 90 28
Gauteng 6 17 0 28 28 5 46
KwaZulu-Natal 167 321 0 200 77 200 132
Limpopo 75 81 0 34 26 186 91
Mpumalanga 72 80 0 21 20 71 143
North West 73 50 0 40 15 50 53
Northern Cape 8 27 1 7 54 25 0
Western Cape 22 0 6 3 13 0 0
Total 1 097 726 64 610 423 627 935
Source: Department of Education’s National Education Infrastructure Management System
(NEIMS), as assessed at 30 September 2007.