FREE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN

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FREE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONINFRASTRUCTURE
PLAN

• SELECT COMMITTEE EDUCATION AND RECREATION.
• 23 FEBRUARY 2005
• CAPE TOWN

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MAIN ELEMENTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN

• 1. Construction of new schools
• 2. Eliminate unsafe/unacceptable
• structures
• 3. Provisioning of additional facilities
• address overcrowding
• Promote full school effectiveness
• 4. Alternative solutions
• Learner transport
• Hostel accommodation farm school learners
• Merging/Reorganization of schools.
• Mobile classrooms on farms

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MAIN ELEMENTScont.

• 4. Alternative solutions. Cont.
• optimal utilization of empty
  classrooms.
• 5. Provisioning of basic services
• Water
• Sanitation
• Electricity

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MAIN ELEMENTScont.

• 6. Maintenance of schools
• addressing backlogs
• strategy to deal with major/minor renovations
• asset register on conditions of all school
  facilities
• 7. Letsema
• 8. Facilitate signing of agreements
  with farmers
• 9. Standard plans for school buildings

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FOCUS OF PRESENTATION

• New schools
• Departmental budget
• PPP
• 2. Provisioning of basic services
• Water
• Sanitation
• Electricity

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NEW SCHOOLS

• 1. Migration patterns.
• Between towns
• Within towns
• 2. Platoon condition
• 3. Unacceptable structures in urban areas

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NEW SCHOOLS
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NEW SCHOOLS cont.
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NEW SCHOOL cont. (PPP Intervention programme)
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NEW SCHOOLS COMMENTS

• 1. Exploration of alternative solutions for use
  of existing infrastracture may reduce number of
  46 schools needed.
• Backlog to be eliminated by 2008/9
• PPP intervention to address 13 platoon schools
  2007/8

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BASIC SERVICES BACKLOGS PER DISTRICT
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BASIC SERVICES - WATER
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BASIC SERVICES - SANITATION
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BASIC SERVICES - ELECTRICITY
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BASIC SERVICES COMMENTS

• 1. Continuation of partnership with other
  government departments and other organizations
  will ensure speedy elimination of backlogs

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