Question 2101
Ms D Carter (Cope) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
Whether her department has made any alternative plans to accommodate the 9 092 learners affected by the closure of 19 schools at Tlakgameng Village in North West owing to service delivery protests and the destruction of schools; if not, why not; if so, what plans?
Response:
The response from the North West Provincial Education Department with regards to the schools that are in Tlakgameng Village in the North West province is that portions of only five schools in the village were damaged during the protest by the community. The affected schools are:
1. Sebitoane
2. Shupu
3. Thuso-Thebe
4. Tasman
5. Seitsang
The provincial department investigated the availability of unused mobile classrooms to relocate them to Tlakgameng Village. To date only six mobile classrooms have been identified for relocation against 13 needed. Unfortunately, the communities where the mobile classrooms are located are refusing to release them.
A team has been dispatched to assess the cost of the damage with the view to exploring the possibility of shifting funds to renovate the damaged schools as no provision was made in the current budget allocation for these schools. In the interim, learners are accommodated in classrooms that were not affected by the damage.
Source: Department of Basic Education
