Given the rapid urbanisation and pressure on current schools in the district, three newly constructed schools will be opened in the Siyanda district. This is part of the flagship projects of the school infrastructure projects that will come to fruition in the next quarter explained Northern Cape MEC for Education, Grizelda Cjiekella.
When delivering her budget speech today, MEC for Education, Grizelda Cjiekella, said the new schools in Louisvale, Kakamas and Paballelo will be opening to service the local communities.
She said some of the investment projects include building of about 41 classrooms, five media centres, 54 ECD classrooms and 11 administration blocks, all to be completed in the current financial year. Sixteen more schools are to be provided with state of the art security fences to deal with vandalism.
“We will be providing a further 21 schools with sanitation and water including one new school which will cost R 25 million as part of the Accelerated School Infrastructure Development Initiative. This school is Sternham primary,” said MEC Cjiekella.
She said construction will commence soon at three multiyear new schools which will each costs an estimated R 40 million each:
- Wrenchville PS
- Emmanuel HS
- Jan Kempsdorp HS
The overall Education Infrastructure Grant budget for the 2013/14 financial year is R 316, 9 billion. In keeping with government’s job creation opportunity priority, the department has been allocated R 5, 8m as part of the Infrastructure EPWP Incentive Grant.
The target is to create 109 temporary jobs through 12 infrastructure and nine environment projects to be funded from this grant.
Additional work opportunities for out of school youth will be created through the Social EPWP Incentive Grant which is to the tune of R 3, 9 million. A total of 129 full time equivalent work opportunities will be created during this current financial year.
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