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THREE years ago, Angie Motshekga, then Gauteng education MEC, launched the Early Childhood Development Institute.

Since the launch, the institute, which was supposed to improve numbers in ECD and train practitioners, has been silent.

The institute's main aim is to ensure that all stakeholders in ECD education are involved. The institute is supposed to map and monitor childhood education to ensure there is access and quality.

ECD caters for children from pre-school to Grade R.

In the three years of its existence, the department has spent about R200-million to sustain the institute that has not achieved its targets.

Education MEC Barbara Creecy has since taken over some of its programmes.

The DA's Khume Ramulifho said they were unaware of what the institute had achieved over the years. "Most of the issues regarding early childhood development have been centralised to the MEC's office. The office is one of the few places in the education department that overspends. The department underspends a lot when it comes to early childhood development."

Gauteng education department spokesman Charles Phahlane said one of the institute's biggest tasks was the "universalisation of Grade R by 2014".

This despite the programme being championed by Creecy's office.

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Sun May 19 04:17:41 SAST 2013 ::

Jun 13, 2012

RobinH

Hmmmm. No fine.
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Jun 13, 2012

Pointman

It was a good project which would have fed well prepared kids into our education system. However if you want to find out why it failed, look at who was appointed to lead it. Was it a cadre that needed a fat salary or was it a poefessional manager.
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Jun 13, 2012

MommaC

What a crock!
It really p....es me off when they just eat money like this. Its flippin pre-school, not quantum physics. How blerrie hard can it be to just come up with a program?
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Jun 13, 2012

Socrates

this woman cant do anything right..why is she still in government, ANCWL, Basic education, her teeth, this ECD, etc are all in tatters can she just get something right please, we know she loves Zuma but she just do something right
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Jun 13, 2012

Shredder

This woman is not my favourite. I remember her calling people dogs on TV. Can you believe it?
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Jun 13, 2012

nghunghunyane

why wasnt this woman re-shuffled to retirement department or something, she is redundant to say the least, Zumas administration is a mess. i guess the lack of education on his part is being exposed, he cant plan shame
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Jun 13, 2012

sabza007

This report is misleading.there is currently an Early Childhood Development Centre being constructed in Soweto and these centres serves their purpose.
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Jun 13, 2012

RobinH

Oh Angie Baby, what a gemors you have managed to generate with this one, rather than making a success of one of the best ideas in a long time. Incompetent, arrogant party-liner.
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Jun 13, 2012

Pointman

@MommaC - Limpopo and EC kids are still waiting for books. If moving a box from the warehouse to the schools is hard then coming up with a program - that is certainly hard.
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Jun 13, 2012

Mnyakazo

Zuma remove this not so beautiful woman immediately....dont like her and everytime she speaks only sh!t comes out of that mouth...........
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