NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 94
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 12/03/2010
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 5-2010)
Mr D A Worth (DA-FS) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
1) Whether there is currently a shortage of (a) schools and (b)
classrooms in the Free State; if so, how many (i) schools and (ii)
classrooms will have to be built by end of the 2010-11 financial
year;
(2) whether any provision for the necessary schools and classrooms
has been made in the budget of the Free State Education
Department; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant
details? CW121E
REPLY:
1.
i) Yes there is a need for new schools in the province, this need is mainly
in the newly developed areas. In the 2010/11 financial year the Free
State will be building three (3) new schools in these areas and a total
of 571 additional classrooms will be provided.
ii) An allocation of R 42,1 million, R 6,850 million and R 8,410 million is
budgeted for new classrooms, mobile classrooms and ECD classrooms
respectively in the 2010/11 financial year. A total of 57 schools will
benefit from this programme.
2. See 1 above