a) major repairs and renovations are required in most schools; b) need to improve and upgrade all the existing libraries and development of mobile libraries; c) need to implement effective school management in most schools; d) apacity-building of school governing bodies in financial management and school governance in most schools; e) need for electricity, sanitation and clean running water; f) co-operative relationship with provincial standing committee; g) provincial departments of education should monitor adherence to national legislations, e.g. abolishing of corporal punishment; h) need to inculcate a sense of ownership of schools by communities; i) need to encourage co-operation between previously advantaged and disadvantaged schools; j) need to develop a rural strategy educational plan based on these visits and in accordance with the President's integrated rural strategy programme; k) special budgetary provisions which have to be made in order to attend both to backlogs and current need and inadequacies. Furthermore, provision has to be made to meet needs caused by natural disasters; and l) the study tour report should be assessed within the broader context of the national schools' survey of needs.