A total of 72 schools, 26 new ones and 46 replacement schools, will be built in the Western Cape in the next three years, education MEC Donald Grant said on Tuesday.

“The department has finalised a three-year plan for infrastructure (2013/14-2015/16) that includes a shift in infrastructure spend in the direction of maintenance and the building of new schools,” Grant said in a statement.

“The three largest allocations of this budget will be spent on new school buildings, replacement schools and on maintenance.”  The province would also have five replacement school projects and 124 Grade R classrooms.

The plan would try to shift maintenance expenditure from its current 17% of the overall infrastructure budget to 40%, said Grant.

“The shift towards maintenance in this plan is not just about increasing the portion of the budget to maintenance. It is also about fundamentally changing the way maintenance is conceived and executed,” he said.

There would be day-to-day maintenance by schools, which would decrease the need for repairs because of neglect.

A total of 420 schools would be refurbished and have maintenance done over the three years. A further 45 schools would get life-cycle maintenance, said Grant.

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Sep 4, 2012

cornelius

Where are these schools ? Hopefully the priority is the schools in the predominantly black and coloured townships , that is where transformation must start.
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Sep 4, 2012

_Sinudeity

That means that the WCape will have built a total of 150 schools since taking over the province.
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Sep 4, 2012

16-12-1838

DA 1 - anc 0 ... again!

(see article = "Gauteng schools to get more classrooms")
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Sep 4, 2012

skhokho21

this is the bull I always talk about, these people won`t tell you where, this is just to blind us. The journalists who go to these announcements, don`t they get a chance to ask where are they going to build these schools, which ones are being renovated, why can`t they renovate the ones they want to close. MEC Grant with all due respect that was just like passing gas to make Sinudeity happy.
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Sep 4, 2012

cornelius

@ Skikhokho - Maybe you should reserve your disdain until you hear the deatils. I would be surprised if the township school shave not been made the priority here, mayb just poor reporting
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Sep 4, 2012

Poppitlove

@skhokho21

Here is the article telling you which areas will get new schools and which ones will be refurbished and according to which studies the allocations has been made

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71654?oid=324016&sn=Detail&pid=71616

The below website will give you all the schools in the different areas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_secondary_schools_in_the_Western_Cape#Government_schools_3


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