The Department of Basic Education will hand-over the R23 million Lower Tyira Primary School in Qumbu and the R24 million Mhala Secondary School just outside iDutywa in the Eastern Cape through the Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Development Initiative (ASIDI) on Friday, 2 September 2016.
The objective of ASIDI is to eradicate the Basic Safety Norms backlog in schools without water, sanitation and electricity and to replace those schools constructed from inappropriate material (mud, plankie, asbestos) to contribute towards levels of optimum learning and teaching.
Since inception in 2011, the ASIDI programme has built and delivered 170 state of the art schools across the country, a large portion of which are in the Eastern Cape. Over and above this, the initiative has provided water to 596 schools, sanitation to 414 schools and electricity to 307 schools that previously had no access to these basic amenities.
Members of the Media are invited to attend the two school hand-overs as follows:
Lower Tyira: Magqagqeni Township
Date: Friday, 2 September 2016
Time: 10h0
Venue: Lower Tyira Primary School, Magqagqeni Township (just outside Qumbu), Eastern Cape
Mhala Secondary School: KuCamandashe Township
Date: Friday, 2 September 2016
Time: 10h00
Venue: Mhala Secondary School, KuCamandashe Township (just outside iDutywa), Eastern Cape
Enquiries:
Albert Gumbo
Cell: 082 317 5691
Terence Khala
Cell: 081 758 1546
