Free State Department of Education Budget Vote Speech, 2017/2018 by Honourable MEC Tate Makgoe, Fourth Raadzaal, Bloemfontein
Madam Speaker
Honourable Premier
Members of the Executive Council
Members of Provincial Legislature
Organised Labour
Our partners
Principals, teachers
Learners
School Governing Bodies
Distinguished guests
Ladies and gentlemen
Honourable Speaker, we thank you for the Debate on Vote 6, Free State Department of Education.
During the 2017 State of the Province Address (SOPA), Free State Premier, and Honourable Ace Magashule reminded us that as we celebrate 105 years of the glorious liberation struggle, we have to embark on a radical socio-economic transformation.
This, he said must be done in order to confront the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. This change can only come about with radical and far-reaching interventions.
Honourable Premier, we wish to applaud you for yet another inspiring and visionary State of the Province Address. Your speech, which was followed by our people across the province was charactised by clarity and conviction; and indeed gave the people of Free State a reason to believe, to hope and to be optimistic that a better life for all is possible.
It gave an encouraging picture of a government that is sensitive and alive to the urgent needs of our people. It demonstrated a nation at work - united to drive radical socio- economic transformation for the good of the province.
At the centre of radical socio- economic transformation project is education - the Apex Priority of this government.
Madam Speaker, we value education because it is a powerful tool for transforming and rebuilding our country, and ensuring the kind of economic growth that will create jobs and assist us in eradicating poverty and hunger. It is an instrument that will enable us to participate fully in the global arena and be active in bilateral and multilateral engagements in the world.
Access to education:
In line with our theme - ‘raising the bar, closing the gap and leaving no child behind’, we will continue to increase access to education with a high level of participation in this province, at 99% enrolment in compulsory basic education.
About 87.2% of our schools have been declared no-fee schools. An amount of R705.094 million has been allocated in the 2017/18 financial year, for no-fee Schools to open doors for learning to about 542 136 learners from low-income schools.
The no-fee- subsidy per learner has increased from R1 177 in 2016/17 to R1 243 in the 2017/18 financial year – increasing by R66.
To ensure that no child is left behind in this financial year, R358.412 million has been set aside to provide healthy and nutritious meals to 580 000 learners at quintiles 1-3 primary and secondary, as well as identified special schools.
To further expand access to basic education for the 2017/2018 financial year, the Hostel Project has been allocated R68 million. Currently there are 33 operational hostels, accommodating 4 269 farm learners.
Madam Speaker, Honourable Members, as we table the 2017/2018 budget we wish to confirm that as we embark on this radical socio- economic transformation, both the National Development Plan (NDP) and the department’s Action Plan to 2019: Towards the realisation of schooling 2030, will guide our programmes. Our medium to long term plan elaborates the work to be done between now and 2030.
The NDP states that education is a means to building an inclusive society, and to providing opportunities for South Africans to realise their full potential. It further stipulates that education provides the tools to people to solve their problems.
We are delighted to note that in the 2017 January 8 Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC), President Jacob Zuma reiterated the ruling party’s commitment to education, as priority number one.
“Education and skills are fundamental requirements for creating a prosperous society.” These words were uttered by President Zuma at the occasion of the 105 anniversary of the ANC at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
2017: The Year of Oliver Reginald Tambo:
Indeed the importance of education cannot be overemphasised. We have treasured education for centuries. By the time of the last war of resistance in 1906, spearheaded by Chief Bambatha Ka Mncinza, the African communities had already developed a class of educated people.
Among this generation of African educated class that was emerging we can mention Tiyo Soga, Walter Rabusana, John Tengo, and John Langalibalele Dube, Sol Plaatje and many others, who all used their qualifications to fight for the liberation of their people.
After the formation of the Union of South Africa, which excluded black South Africans, a group of intellectuals educated in missionary schools and abroad, decided to form their own parliament of the people, hence the formation of the African National Congress on 8 January 1912.
Illustrious scholars of note were to lead the struggle at different periods from John Langalibalele Dube to Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, from Josiah Gumede to Albert Luthuli, from Oliver Reginald Tambo to Nelson Mandela. None of them ever undermined the role of education in the struggle to emancipate the African people. They practiced what they preached.
Oliver Tambo was one of the best Mathematics and Science students in his school days. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree and later an Education Diploma. He then taught maths and science for a few years, before he later changed careers and obtained a Law degree.
He was instrumental in the opening of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania, to ensure that young people who went to exile received proper education. This played an important role in arming young exiles with skills that they are now using, as we work towards radically transforming, reconstructing and developing our country.
In his State of Nation Address (Sona), President Jacob Zuma, befittingly declared the year 2017 the Year of Oliver Reginald Tambo.
It is a year in which all South Africans should unite in action to move this country forward.
It is a year in which we should learn from aforementioned heritage, and follow in the footsteps of luminaries such as OR Tambo, to use education for the betterment of our society.
In honor of OR Tambo as he was affectionately known, we will host OR Tambo Centenary Commemoration on 20 May 2017 at the Central University of Technology.
About 3 000 learners will attend this occasion which will in the main reflect on the role Tambo played in the struggle for liberation.
Next month we will launch under -20 OR Tambo Football League in Bloemfontein.
Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC):
As directed by the Honorable Premier in his State of the Province address, we will continue to promote universal access to education by:
- Investing in early childhood development
- Ensuring that children between the ages of 7 and 15 attend school
- Increasing the number of quality passes in the National Senior Certificate (NSC)
- Increasing the participation of learners in Mathematics, Science, Accounting and Technology
- Establishing Schools of Skills and improving support of Technical schools and
- Developing strategies to cater for struggling pupils at primary school level.
Madam Speaker, as the leadership of this department, we have to be more aggressive in tracking learner performance, in order to decrease the drop-out rate and to increase the retention levels in our schools.
The time for radical transformation has come. In this financial year we will strengthen Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC) in every school, circuit, town and district. Already Free State has been identified as one of the three province in which QLTC is vibrant. We call upon unemployed university graduates, retired teachers, principals and other professionals to support these committees, to assist the department to realize its vision encapsulated in the Action Plan to 2019: Towards the realization of schooling 2030 and implement the NDP for the education sector.
The 2017/2018 Budget Allocation:
Today, we are in this chamber to present the 2017/2018 budget. This budget reflects positively on the strategic goals we have set to attain.
Madam Speaker, tabling the 2017 Provincial Budget Speech on 7 March, Free State MEC for Finance, Honorable Elzabe Rockman allocated an amount of R12.739 billion for 2017/18, R13. 614 billion for 2018/19 and R14.587 billion for 2019/20. The budget for our department increases by an average of 6.5% over the 2017 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). This department remains the largest category of the provincial government spending.
Vocational, Technical and Occupational Streams
Madam Speaker, in line with ‘The Decade of the Artisan Programme’, we are determined to ensure that all children of the Free State are afforded the opportunity to receive the quality education they deserve.
Radical socio-economic transformation must happen in our lifetime.
But the reality is that the education needs of our learners are diverse. As individuals we are all different in some way or another. We all have our own unique talents and skills.
I am pleased to announce that in this province we are ready to provide a wide range of educational opportunities, even to those learners whose educational needs cannot easily be accommodated in the mainstream schools.
In our quest to revolutionize the skills development in the country in line with the injunction of the NDP, we will offer such learners more relevant vocational, technical, practical and occupational skills such as welding, panel beating, spray- painting, motor mechanic, plumbing, woodwork, building, construction, farming, motor mechanic, hairdressing and hospitality studies, as wells ancillary health care.
We will fundamentally and radically increase intake and provision of occupationally-directed and skills programs in our institutions. We will invest more in technical, vocational streams made of schools of Skills, Skills Hubs, Skills Academy and Technical Schools.
Schools of Skills:
In the 2017/18 financial year, R18 million has been allocated to Schools of Skills to train young people on the abovementioned skills.
In 2017 we will convert Qelo Primary School to be the first of the Schools of Skills in the province.
In addition, seven Special Schools offering the General Education Certificate (GEC): Technical Occupational (TO) Curriculum, are already piloting schools of Skills services. They are:
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District |
School |
Town |
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Fezile Dabi |
Fakkel |
Sasolburg |
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Johan Slabbert |
Kroonstad |
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Lejweleputswa |
Nobilis |
Virginia |
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Orion |
Welkom |
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Motheo |
Dr Bohmer |
Bloemfontein |
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Ladybrand Primary School |
Ladybrand |
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Thabo Mofutsanyana |
Maluti Hoogland |
Bethlehem |
Skills Hubs:
Furthermore, with the help of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil we will establish Centers for Training and Development of Artisans and Apprentices. These centers which will target unemployed youth will offer Civil Construction Training, Mechanical Training, Automobiles Training and Biomedical Equipment Training.
In addition, working together with the private sector we will establish Skills Hubs in Thabo Mofutsanyane, Motheo and Fezile Dabi Districts.
Later this year, students will be sent to Turkey to enroll at Bacheshir University (BAU), to study in the fields such as mechatronics, computer programming, bio- medicine and psychiatry.
Skills Academy:
In his State of the Province Address, The Honorable Premier, directed that a Skills Academy be established at Maccauvlei focusing on technological disciplines such as Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Applications Development and programming. The Academy will be established in partnership with the private sector with the view of providing solutions for industry, skills development and job creation.
Technical and Comprehensive schools:
Madam Speaker, over the past three years we have been revamping the workshops of the Technical and Comprehensive schools by providing resources and materials, increasing the participation of learners in this stream, and by encouraging them to follow careers in this sector.
Our goal is to improve conditions and modernize technical schools to meet the teaching requirements of learners in the technical fields.
To expand the scope of technical schools, we have introduced technical maths and science in all our technical schools.
Teachers have been trained in various specializations and the new CAPS 2, to ensure that the system is ready for full implementation of the CAPS 2 curriculum in grade 12 next year.
The department has appointed 5 Subject Advisors of Technical subjects – two Engineering Graphics Design, two Civil Technology and one to support Mechanical Technology.
This is a clear demonstration of our commitment to build and support this stream. Our firm view is that this three-pronged approach – vocational, technical and occupational will be able to accommodate all learners.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy:
Madam Speaker, in 2017, in partnership with the Central University of Technology (CUT), we will establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy.
The project will be in the form of exposing grades 8-10 learners and their teachers to an intensive support in the Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering Graphics Design and Technology. This will be done through teacher development, access to workshops and laboratories, extra-classes, research and development.
Agricultural Schools
Madam Speaker, R3 million has been set aside for Agricultural Schools. This allocation will be used to procure equipment for teaching and learning in these schools.
As part of their ‘One Household, One Hectare’ program, The National Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has admiringly agreed to inject R4.9 million to support five Agricultural Schools in the province. These schools are: Unicom, Seotlong, Bovaal, Weiveld and Hendrik Potgieter Agricultural Schools.
These schools will be provided with infrastructure, agricultural equipment, machinery, seeds and chemicals to run successful farms located within the schools’ premises. Once these school farms are productive, we will link them to women cooperatives contracted by the department to supply food to schools for the NSNP. These farm schools will also be linked to both the domestic and international markets to sell their products.
Second chance finishing schools:
Madam Speaker, Honorable Members, beginning from this year, we will establish five Grade 12 finishing schools in each district. These are:
- Selokisa Finishing School in Botshabelo
- Riverside Finishing School in Qwa-Qwa,
- Mohokare Finishing School in Zastron,
- Tshepo Themba Finishing in Thabong,
- Tumahole Finishing in Tumahole.
An amount of R 10 million has been set aside for this purpose.
The main objective of these Finishing Schools is to provide support to learners who did not achieve NSC since 2009.
Through these Finishing Schools we are responding directly to the goals of the NDP and the sector, thus increasing learner retention in the system.
The categories of learners who will be covered are those who qualify to write supplementary examinations and those who failed to meet the requirements of the NSC, and will be writing at the end of the year.
Through Finishing Schools, young people will be integrated back into education system to ensure that they receive a second chance at being adequately qualified before entering the job market.
Available evidence suggests that 38% of those with grade 12 as their highest qualification are employed, while 54% of those with an education level less than matric are unemployed.
Clearly there are more benefits to the country to have adequately educated citizens.
Arts School:
In 2017/2018 financial year, we have allocated R 3 million for conversion of Reamohetswe Secondary School in Botshabelo to be an Arts School
Focus on primary schools
Research conducted by the National Department of Basic Education revealed that 60% of school pupils do not learn to read in any language, (including their Home Language) by the end of grade 4. Therefore, because these children lack language proficiency, they are unable to read for meaning and cannot use the skills of reading to acquire new knowledge in various subject disciplines.
In response to this challenge as highlighted in this study, a portion from R28.5 million allocated to teachers’ development, will be used to train and improve the capacity of foundation phase teachers to ‘teach and assess reading’ in both Home Languages and English.
In the next 5 years we will make appropriate interventions to turn our primary schools around by producing a learner, who is able to read fluently and with comprehension by the end of grade 3.
We will do so by inter alia:
- Introducing the Primary School Reading Improvement Programme, which will for the first time include Early Grade Reading Assessment in 117 schools,
- Encourage the establishment of reading clubs to inculcate the culture of reading in our communities,
- Distribute readers that will promote South African cultures to 450 primary schools,
- Establish a Primary School Library and Reading Revitalization project to benefit primary schools learners. They will also receive multimedia resources such as story books in Sesotho, Setswana, IsiXhosa and English.
- Strengthening the utility and proficiency in English as the First additional Language and the Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT), through the strategy of English Across the Curriculum (EAC). This strategy was introduced to strengthen LOLT from Grade 1 -12, to address the barrier factor and to mitigate the negative impact the withdrawal of the language compensation policy may have on learner performance.
- Encourage primary schools to participate in Spelling Bee competitions, Astronomy Quiz, and to observe the National Book Week, the National Science Week and the International Literacy Day.
Madam Speaker, on the teaching of mathematics in primary schools, training of teacher on differentiated approaches will be prioritized in order to implement inclusive approaches in the teaching of all concepts in mathematics. This approach will help learners to improve performance, as well as to ensure greater retention of learners in the schooling system in line with our strategic goals.
In addition, the use of manipulatives and institutionalization of Concrete Pictorial Abstracts (CPA) in teaching mathematics will be strengthened.
Furthermore, in order to improve outputs of the schooling system, we need to improve the fundamental quality of learning and teaching, well before the Further Education and Training (FET) phase.
Professor Aslam Fataar, a professor in Sociology at the University of Stellenbosch cogently argues that the major causes of dropping out of school towards the end of the secondary school are weak learning foundations.
Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Honorable Members, in 2014 the African National Congress’s (ANC) Manifesto, articulated under Education and Training resolutions considered ECD a top priority.
The NDP underlines the need for access for all children to high quality ECD provisioning.
Therefore accordingly, in the 2017/2018 financial year, R23.965 million has been allocated to increase the number of Grade R classes in public schools, to accommodate an additional 50 630 learners by the end March next year.
To ensure that we have appropriately qualified ECD practitioners, R3.590 million has been set aside for up-skilling 200 Grade R practitioners already in our public schools, towards a 3-year Diploma in Grade R Teaching.
An additional R1.057 million has been set aside to provide professional development and support to pre-grade R practitioners employed in ECD centers and grade R practitioners in public schools, to effectively implement the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) – 0-4 years, and Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (Caps) grade R -12 respectively.
Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) GRANT
Madam Speaker, Honorable Members, in memory of OR Tambo who was a maths and science teacher, we will in the 2017/2018 financial year continue to prioritize maths and science.
The allocation of R33.741 million in the 2017/18 financial year to the MST Grant is a clear demonstration of our commitment to increasing participation and performance of our learners in MST subjects. The main objective of this grant is to help boost the maths, science and technology education in the country.
The MST Grant will strengthen the implementation of the NDP and the Action Plan to 2019, by increasing the number of learners taking mathematics, science and technology subjects. The grant will also go a long way in improving the success rate in the subject, and improving teachers’ capacities in teaching these three gateway subjects.
Provincial Strategy on Learner Attainment (PSLA)
The PSLA remains our key guiding document towards achieving our targets. We have developed strategies to be implemented to bring about improved curriculum management, provisioning of differentiated support and ensured that we continue to provide focused content training to our teachers in order to improve the quality of the learning outcomes.
Madam Speaker, I am proud to announce that Free State pass rate for the class of 2016 with progressed learners included is 88.2%. In 2015 our pass rate was 81.6%, which means an improvement of 6.6%.
With progressed learners excluded, our performance is 93.2%, an increase of 5, 5% from 87.7 in 2015. We remain the only province that broke the 90% threshold.
Through the implementation and monitoring of the PSLA, we managed to be number 1 nationally in Life Sciences for the past 8 years, number 1 in Accounting for the past three years and number 1 in 2016 in both Mathematics Literacy and Geography.
We further recorded an improvement in the following big enrolment subjects:
- Accounting results improved from 73.02% in 2015 to an impressive 86.4% in 2016. This is an improvement of 13.3%. The subject average improved by 5.19% from 41.41% in 2015 to 46.6% in 2016. This demonstrated an improvement of quality passess. We also recorded an increase in the number of level 7s from 297 to 389.
- Mathematics Literacy improved from 77.8% in 2015 to 88.6% in 2016, which is a 10.8% increase. The quality of passes improved by 4.99% - from 42.01% in 2015 to 47.42% in 2016.
- History, improved from 83.71% in 2015 to 94.1% to in 2016. This translates to 10.4% increase. The quality of passes in History improved from 46.44% to 53.8%. This has elevated the province’s performance in History from position 6 in 2015 to position 3 in 2016 nationally and;
- Geography improved from 83.5% to 90.6%, which translates into an overall increase of 7.1%.
In 2016, 10 365 candidates wrote mathematics and 7 387 passed. This represents a 71.3% pass rate of the subject, compared to 69.09% in 2015. The quality of passes in the subject improved from 39.8% in 2015 to 42.9 % in 2016. This represents an improvement of 3.1%. The number of distinctions improved from 363 to 470, translating into a 107 overall increase, and our average pass rate improved from 40.1% in 2015 to 41.46% in 2016.
Physical Science results improved from 73.02% in 2015 to 75.4% in 2016. This represents an impressive improvement of 5.4%. The quality of passes improved from 39.8% in 2015 to 42.9 % in 2016, which is an improvement of 3.1%. The number of distinctions increased by 84 from 300 in 2015 384 in 2016.
2017 National Senior Certificate targets
Madam Speaker, Honourable Members, our targets for the 2017 academic year in the National Senior Certificate are as follows:
- Overall 90% pass rate and 40% bachelor passes for both the progressed and promoted learners
- 95% pass rate and 40% bachelor passes for promoted learners, excluding progressed learners and;
- 80% pass rate for progressed learners.
To achieve our target, R51.6 million has been set aside to provide focused assistance to underperforming schools and to sustain good performance.
Our performance targets for grades 8-9 and grades 10-11 remain 70% pass rate and 40% pass average, as well as 80% pass rate and 45% pass average respectively.
In 2017 we will focus more on these grades.
As part of our focused support we plan to roll-out a dedicated program, focusing on Mathematics, Accounting, Physical Sciences, Natural Sciences as well as Economics and Management Sciences in grades 9 and 10, to increase learner performance and participation in these subjects.
Teaching and learning of languages in secondary schools
In our endeavor to strengthen the teaching and learning of LOLT, we developed a framework to guide and support the teaching and learning of languages in Secondary Schools.
The framework gives guidance on the strategies to be implemented to achieve the following objectives:
- Strengthening the teaching and learning of English FAL and Home languages,
- Strengthen the teaching of English across all teachers and all subjects (enhance the implementation of English Across the Curriculum),
- Strengthen the teaching and assessment of all African Home Languages,
- Promotion of Reading and the development of library information service plan,
- Support the South African Sign language curriculum.
Madam Speaker, we want to train our teachers to understand the grade 10-12 curriculum so that they properly prepare learners for the National Senior Certificate examinations (NSC).
We have already started in January with the provincial training on the new English Literature set work, and we are busy with the African languages set work in partnership with the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture.
As part of our support program for the introduction of the new FET set work in grade 12, the department will provide literature resource material for English HL, FAL and African Languages.
In promoting reading and acquisition of language skills in the secondary schooling, we have provided schools and districts with the reading and writing norms for the first time.
We encourage our SMTs, parents, SGB formations and RCLs to ensure that these norms are practiced and adhered to, as part of our strategy to increase quality passes in our languages and in particular African languages.
To further hone our learners’ language skills, before the end of this financial year we will host the Provincial debates, public speaking and book review competitions in grades 8-11. We will be hosting Sesotho debates in grades 10-11, as part of supporting the development of African languages.
School infrastructure
Madam Speaker, school infrastructure remains our priority, owing to the growing demand for space and the need to replace buildings that were built with inappropriate materials.
In the 2017/2018 financial year, R66.6 million has been set aside to help accelerate construction, maintenance, upgrading and rehabilitation of new and existing infrastructure in our schools.
I am pleased to announce that in this financial year we will commence with the construction of the following schools: Tweeling Primary School, Tshehetso Primary School in Bothaville and Tsebo Lwazi Secondary School in Frankfurt.
In 2017/2018 we will also construct a special school in Trompsburg. We have already handed over this project to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure for implementation.
Kopanelang Thuto Primary School in Sasolburg and Umcebo Primary School in Memel are complete and operational. The value of these projects was R25 million and R47 million respectively.
In our 2016/2017 financial year budget speech Madam Speaker we announced the conversion of Graanveld Primary School in Bethlehem and Mojaho Primary School in Welkom into Full Service Schools.
Today, we are pleased to report to this chamber that these schools are now Full Service Schools.
In the 2016/2017 financial year we have completed 18 grade R classrooms, two science laboratories and two Hostels – Sediti and Ventersburg and two school halls – Teto and Heatherdale. In these projects, we have partnered with Kagisho Shanduka Trust (KST) and Kagisho Trust (KT) respectively.
Conclusion
Madam Speaker, there is no turning back. To radically transform our economy we must revolutionize the skill development in the country to achieve the goals we set out in the NDP – the goals of eliminating poverty, reducing unemployment and inequality by 2030
This provincial government under the leadership of Premier Magashule is committed to championing vocational training in our province.
We are passionate to improve the profile of occupational training and technical skills development.
We have a duty to ensure that our young people are adequately skilled so that they can benefit from the construction of roads, schools and new power stations.
We owe our young people no less than high performing education sector that is socially and economically responsive.
We must strengthen foundation phase teaching considerably and reduce the dropout rate. We will intensify our focus on improving the reading ability of our children.
We call on all stakeholders across all levels of the education system, in homes, and public domains and communities to ensure that by 2019, all learners can read and write.
From next month we will embark on mass media and direct communication campaign to amongst other things, encourage parents to have a regular discussions with children about general school matters, promote reading at home, supporting learning of mathematics concepts at home and create a home environment conducive to study.
Together, we must strive to lay a solid foundation, where our children will be encouraged and nurtured to become responsible citizens.
As OR Tambo once said: “The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.”
Ou strategic goal is to deliver a better life for our children. There is No Surrender! No Retreat! Victory is certain. We must surrender our being to the children of this country.
Let us unite in driving radical economic transformation for the good of the country.
Madam Speaker, let me conclude my presentation by paying tribute:
- To ANC and our Premier for making education in this province a number one priority
- To my colleagues in the Executive Council for their support
- To all the school governing bodies, principals, SMTs and teachers in our province who, despite daunting challenges, prioritize the future of our children above all else.
- To Free State Department of Education officials under the leadership of the newly appointed HOD Advocate Tsoarelo Malakoane for their tremendous hard work and dedication
- To members of the education portfolio committee for always keeping us on our toes
- To all of you in the House for ongoing work that each and every one of you does to make education a societal priority
- To our corporate partners, NGOs, CBOs, municipalities, provincial departments, universities and churches for supporting investing in education in the province
- To my wife Ivy, my daughter Maki, and my son Junior for their loving support throughout my career and;
Comrades, colleagues, and friends, this province is at the forefront of getting education right. The ANC in the province is getting education right.
‘Raising the bar, closing the gap and leaving no child behind’
Re a Hlasela – We have delivered!
‘Advancing and consolidating service delivery gains in this year of O.R. Tambo’
Madam Speaker, Honorable Members, ladies and gentlemen, I Thank you.
