SECTION 7

The completion of agreements between the MEC and owners of property on which public schools exist is provided for in section 14 of the South African Schools Act, 1996. Agreements that have to be completed under section 14 of the Act include largely agreements with religious organisations, farmers and to a minor extent mines. It is four years since the Act was promulgated. However, progress has been very slow in ensuring that all the necessary agreements have been completed.

Election of governing bodies is provided for in section 28 of the South African Schools Act, 1996. After the promulgation of the Act, the Minister of Education was required, in terms of section 54, to determine the date by which the first elections would be finalised. The first elections were conducted in the second half of 1997 and the new governing bodies assumed their functions thereafter. The term of office of a member of a governing body, other than a learner, may not exceed three years In terms of section 31 of the Act. The elections that are scheduled to take place this year constitute the second elections since the implementation of the relevant sections of the Act.

The enhancement of the capacity of school governing bodies is provided for in section 19 of the Act. The Head of Department is required to establish a capacity- building programme from funds appropriated by the provincial legislature. After the elections there will be need for the newly elected governing bodies to undergo training so that they are acquainted with their responsibilities.

There are other policies provincial departments have elected to report on. One of these is the implementation of the Norms and Standards for Funding Schools which came into effect at the beginning of the year 2000. The preparedness of the provincial department to implement the Norms and Standards was reported on in the first report released in December 1999.

The report of the provincial departments of education on all these issues are presented in the following sections.

Progress with completion of agreements between the MEC and owners of property on which public schools exist.

The legal section of the department is currently scrutinizing the pro-forma in respect of public schools on private property. The Department has taken stock of all public schools on private property. Projections have been made of budgetary implications for the 2000/2001 financial year. Agreements are scheduled to be finalised before 31 March 1999.

The year 2000 marks an in depth training of the School Governing Bodies in the Province. In order to ensure effective training and avoid distortion of information, the Province has identified 205 core provincial trainers. The provincial department will undertake the training of the school governing bodies in collaboration with Imbewu project. Imbewu project is engaged in education management development training in 28 Districts. The project has identified 3 trainers in each district which are known as District Teams.

The strategy is that the section of Education Management Development in the department and Imbewu will work together during the training sessions. The Department has identified 5 trainers from non-Imbewu districts and an additional 2 trainers from each Imbewu District. This means that each district has 5 trainers, hence the 205 core provincial trainers (41 x 5).

The initial strategy was to cluster the Province into 246 clusters, with training happening at the same time throughout the province. However, the new initiative which seeks to make an impact on the under-achieving schools has made us change this approach. The new approach is now a cluster of schools within reasonable proximity to the underachieving school, and training starts with the identified under-achieving schools.

Our modules are written in a user friendly manner that allows a cascade training model in schools by school teams. The latter 2 modules have been provincialised and in addition have been translated into Xhosa, Sotho and Afrikaans. After the first leg of training which will be in April, SGB's will be trained in short, easy to understand modules. The aim is to ensure that all members of the school governing body are familiar with their roles and responsibilities. Training of trainers (1st session) on the 1st modules commenced on 16 February to 22 February 2000 in East London. Afterwards district teams will work in their relevant districts, according to their schedules. 7 people from each school will be targeted as follows:

The final agreement was drafted, approved by the State Attorney and by the Department of Education at the end of January 1999. Not all farmers are willing to enter into an agreement with the provincial department of education. Table 7.1 summarises information regarding the signing of agreements.

District	Signed	Not willing	To follow-up	Total
Bethlehem	78		92	170
BFN East	10	4	22	36
BFN South	24		81	105
BFN West	31		109	140
Harrismith	33	31	64	128
Kroonstad	23		208	231
Ladybrand	5		176	181
Odendalsrus	0		219	219
Reitz	54		193	247
Sasolburg	33		115	148
Welkom	0		0	31
Total	291	35	1 279	1 636

The Minister of Education extended the date for the signing of all agreements to 31 March 2000

Progress in signing agreements has been hampered by poor attendance of meetings by farmers. There has been a decrease in the number of schools on private property over the past five years and consequently the number of learners. Table 7.2 summarises the information on the number of farm schools and learners over the past five years.

Year	No. of schools	No. of learners
1995	2 143	105 638
1996	2 018	98 003
1997	1 938	90 000
1998	1 739	79 000
1999	1 636	69 634

Preparations for the election of school governing bodies are at an advanced stage. The action plan covers preparations for preparing election forms, the advocacy campaign, designation of electoral officers, announcements of dates for elections by the MEC, training for elections and training of school governing bodies.

Head Office has prepared copies of ballot papers translated into the main languages in use in the province to cater for the parent component of the school governing body. Head Office personnel will also be responsible for the training of electoral officers.

Programmes for capacity building are expected from District offices. However, not much detail is reflected in the action plan for capacity building

A split of 87/13% between personnel and non-personnel expenditure has been targeted for the 2000/2001 financial year. Currently the split is 89,1/10,9% for the 1999/2000 financial year. The shift will mean a reduction of 1 337 educators. More money will become available for the department to address backlogs in furniture, vehicles, durable subject material, school buildings, etc. The Department aims to achieve a split of 85/15% in two years time.

A provincial election team has been established. The team will co-ordinate the SGB elections which are scheduled for completion by the end of May 2000. SGB election materials used during the previous elections will be updated.. These will be translated from English into Afrikaans, Sepedi, Sesotho and IsiZulu by the end of March 2000 and ready for mass printing and distribution to Head Office, District Offices and all schools.

Running concurrently with this activity was the establishment of the SGBs Elections Advocacy Task Team and SASA Modules Training Task Team. The Elections Advocacy Task Team will be submitting the final operational plan on 9 February 2000, while the SASA Modules Training Task Team has identified, compiled and produced the following module to be workshopped immediately after the SGB elections:

After the completion and distribution of the training material at Head Office and district offices, training of the Provincial Election Team, District Electoral Officers, District Election Teams as well as Schools Elections Team members will follow. All these are expected to take place between the 1^st March and 20^th March 2000.

Booklets in five different languages covering the following themes for SGBs have been developed:

These booklets will be used immediately after the SGBs elections in addressing basic skills for SGBs. Later in the year there will be two additional modules to be developed and training to be conducted for SGBs. These modules will be on:

The RCL elections are currently being conducted at all secondary schools in Gauteng and are to be completed by the end of February 2000. All districts RCL officials will be forwarding their reports on the elections as well as composite plans for the training of newly elected RCL members.

Regarding the capacity building and empowerment of the newly elected the members of Representative Council of Learners, a user friendly, stand alone booklet written in Curriculum 2005 style has been produced to cover the following modules:

The department received a recommendation from independent evaluators that each Secondary school should have a teacher who will be responsible for the RCLs, due to the level of maturity of learners in Gauteng. The responsibility of the teacher would be to provide on-going training and support to the RCL members after every democratic election. This will ensure that RCL activities are accommodated within their schools' curriculum and timetable.

District officials throughout Gauteng will be trained and provided with monitoring and evaluation tools so that they ensure that the following aspects of SASA are implemented in all schools:

Evaluation sessions are conducted in all EMGD meetings and workshops for districts. During these sessions the weaknesses and strengths of the training programmes as influenced by unique conditions in the particular districts are discussed.

District officers were also requested to submit by 9 February 2000 data on progress made in each school regarding policy documents. The data is to cover the following:

The Gauteng Department of Education GDE at Head Office as well as in Districts has been implementing the SASA, 1996, progressively for the past three years. In terms of the management of the process, Head office has a Transversal Team that links all divisions, Directorates and Districts. Districts, in turn, have their own SASA teams most of whom are headed by District Education Co-ordinators.

Circular 55/99 was sent to schools in May 1999 to invite them to apply for the Section 21 functions. The circular explains the criteria and conditions for allocation. Data of schools that have applied so far has been captured. An appeals board will be established shortly to adjudicate contestations regarding section 21 applications. En block allocation of section 21 functions in terms of sections 21 (6) was made to a total of 570 schools. The list of names is in the Provincial Gazette of the 01 December 1999.

School governing bodies received preliminary training on financial management as well as on raising funds as an effort towards capacity building.

The commencement of training is tentatively scheduled for January 2000 but could be deferred to May, after the SGB's elections.

Allocation of functions to schools for learners with special needs in education (LSEN Schools)

From inquiries made by and communication with some LSEN Schools, it became apparent that some schools are under the impression that by catering for the educational needs of learners with barriers to learning and development, they are exempted from applying for Section 21 functions. To correct the mistake, the ETPP SASA Working Group was requested to send out a communiqu� to all the schools for LSEN to make them aware that they are public schools and therefore have to apply for the functions too.

The poverty indication exercise has not yet been conducted for schools for LSEN. The White Paper on Addressing Barriers to Learning and Development (Inclusion), due for release soon, will map out the funding strategy for LSEN schools.

Currently public special schools that fall under Programme 4 are funded in accordance with chapter 4 of the South African Schools Act. A circular on funding for LSEN Schools for the financial year 2000/2001, Circular 2/2000, has been sent out to all LSEN Schools drawing their attention to sections 34, 37 and 44 of the South African Schools Act, 1996.

Circular 17 of 1999, which explains the criteria as well as the procedure for exemption was sent to schools. A reader-friendly pamphlet has been developed and will be distributed to schools soon.

Districts will deal with appeal for exemptions from parents who are not satisfied with decisions taken by the SGBs. Districts were requested to put in place systems to manage this process. A flyer has been prepared for parents and will be issued at the end of January to the general public as a drive to enlighten parents on provisions of SASA in terms of fees.

Progress with the completion of agreements between the MEC and owners of property on which public schools exist.

The province has a total of 183 Primary and Secondary public schools situated on private property. To date six, 6 out of a possible 164, agreements has been finalised and signed. This is only 4% of the agreements that should have been signed by the year 2000.

The province adopted a set of procedures to be followed before an agreement is signed. The District Physical Planners trace the registered farm owners. An agreement is then negotiated with them. If rental is the option chosen, a valuator must determine a market-related price before negotiations can proceed further. If purchase/expropriation is the chosen option, a valuator must also determine a market-related price. The school governing body endorses the agreement.

The District Office then forwards a proposed contract to Head Office. The GDE Legal Advisor then confirms that the agreement is acceptable. The agreement is then signed. A copy of the signed agreement is then forwarded to the District Office for distribution to the principal and chairperson of the school governing body.

The pro-forma contract, as printed in the Gazette, did not contain any conditions in respect of the supply and compensation for water and electricity. This caused the delay, as concluded agreements had to be re-negotiated to include this aspect.

If the owner chooses the option of leasing out the property, an independent valuator has to be appointed by the Department of Land Affairs to determine a market-related price. This causes delays as the appointment of a valuator has to be done in terms of Tender Board regulations.

Delays have also been caused by demands for exhorbitant rent. This in turn has required that we consider the option of purchase/expropriation, as it may be more financially viable. However, when this route is chosen, a different set of procedures has to be followed.

The District Physical Planners, tasked with this responsibility, have not been able to give it their undivided attention as there are many other demands being made on their time.

The Property sub-director, within the Directorate of Administration and Buildings, has compiled an Operational Plan which will ensure that all agreements are completed within the stipulated deadlines set by the Minister of Education. The Acting Superintendent-General has approved the recommendation that District Physical Planners be dedicated to this task and that all their other responsibilities be placed on hold until this process is completed.

A planning workshop was held on Monday, 31 January 2000 where the District Physical Planners were briefed and the Operational Plan finalised.

A report-back meeting was scheduled for 17 February 2000 and it was agreed that all provisional and concluded agreements will be submitted at this meeting.

The department has embarked on a project to ensure that all rural/farm schools are provided with water and sanitation facilities. An audit has been completed and services are being executed. Where there are delays, these are a result of the uncertainty in respect of the future of the school.

At this stage, the department does not require any assistance from the Department of Education. However, if the circumstances change the provincial department will request assistance from the Department of Education as required.

Progress has been slow as this is a complicated issue and requires more capacity than we have been able to allocate to it. The largest owner of property on which public schools exist is the Catholic church. Numerous meetings and negotiations have resulted in a draft agreement that was not acceptable to the state attorney’s office. We have appealed to the State Attorney for approval of the draft agreement. Archbishop Napier has expressed appreciation for the manner in which the negotiations have been held and for the progress that has been made. Meetings have also been held with other religious organisations and negotiations will follow once we have the precedent of an agreement with the Catholic Church. Only one meeting has been held with farmers on whose farms public schools exist.

A circular was issued last year regarding the forthcoming elections. A manual, which indicates the legal background, procedures and processes and which includes formats of all required documents, has been issued to schools. Superintendents of Education Management have been trained on the procedure and processes that have to be followed.

The province has produced manuals on financial management and has done substantial training. A particular capacity building project in respect of understanding and implementing Norms and Standards is being out-sourced. The cost will be R1,3 million.

Progress with the completion of agreements between the MEC and owner of private property on which a school exists

Progress with the completion of the agreements between the MEC and owners of property on which public schools exist is slow. Several meetings were held with property owners, stakeholders and agricultural unions on the provisions of the Act, 1996 and relevant Regulations. However farmers are very slow to come forward and engage themselves in such agreement. Currently only 15 contracts out of a possible 519 schools have been concluded. This is approximately two per cent of the possible agreements to be signed. Payments for these schools have been are processed.

The MEC met the Mpumalanga Agricultural Union in October 1999 wherein they agreed that all agreements had to be completed by 31 March 2000. The union also undertook to encourage Its members to sign after a clear plan on which schools will be amalgamated has been agreed upon and all existing agreements with farm owners have been checked and revised as necessary. The union also agreed that no eviction or closing of schools will take place before 31 March 2000.

Preparation and state of readiness of the province for the election of school governing bodies

The Human Resource Development component of the provincial department held a workshop on 27 – 28 January 2000 to map out the programme for election of school governing bodies. The component through the line function submitted a memorandum to the MEC requesting him to make an announcement on 25 February 2000 that schools who are ready on 1 March 2000 should start electing school governing bodies up to 31 May 2000.

The due date for the election of school governing bodies, according to the programme, is 31 May 2000. Data capturing of the entire province’s school governing bodies will reach Head Office on 6 June 2000. The target date to start training is 16 June 2000.

The provincial department of education has held various meetings with owners of private property on which public schools exist. The owners include the Catholic Institute for Education (CIE), the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa and the Northern Cape Agricultural Union (NCAU).

The department of education had preparatory talks with Mr Nathan Johnston, representing the CIE. The purpose of the talks was to establish bases from which the Sections 14 agreements could be concluded with the CIE. The Department presented its PROFORMA agreement, prescribed in the South African Schools Act , 1996 (Act No.84 of 1996) as the base document from which to start the discussions. The document was discussed at length whereupon the CIE was given the opportunity to study the proforma agreement with the owners of the various Catholic schools and recommend changes, which would suit their needs as a religious organisation. After the CIE had interacted with the document the need arose for a second meeting. At this meeting the CIE presented their version of the Performance Agreement, termed that National Model of Agreement for Catholic Schools on Private Property See Annexure A

Though the document presented by the CIE was generally acceptable, there was much debate and discussion around the property rights held by the school and the recognition of the religious character of the school, the breach of the agreement, selling of property and the amendments that were required.

The second meeting was followed up by a third. The owners of the thirteen Catholic Schools under the leadership of Mr N Johnstone attended this meeting. At this meeting the owners indicated that they would be interested in at least R7,00 per square meter rental. The meeting resolved that a team from the physical planning section would go out and measure up the learning area/space at all of CIE schools and this would pave the way for negotiations. The team has completed its visits to all the schools and has made its recommendations. The Department is currently studying these recommendations. The department expected to complete the agreements with the CIE by 31 January 2000. We believe that the negotiations with the CIE will be concluded by the end of January 2000.

A letter was received from the legal advisers of the Verenigde Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid Afrika, requesting the Department to enter into the section 14 agreement with them or else the five schools, namely Rooiwal, Bulletrap, Vioolsdrift, Goodhouse and Henkries Primary Schools would be auctioned. A meeting was held with a delegation from the aforementioned church at the offices of their attorneys, Messrs Scholtz and De Wit Attorneys, on Wednesday 1 December 1999. Two key elements, which gave rise to problems, were identified at the meeting. The first was concerned with the repayment of a loan that had been made by the church, and the second was on a possible auction of the schools.

The Department had initially, prior to 1994, had an agreement with the church that the department would pay back the loan the church had taken out for the erection of the five mentioned schools. It is the opinion of the Springbok regional office that the bond had been paid up but the church had failed to inform the department thereof. The result was that the department continued to pay money into the coffers of the church for a number of years without the church giving an indication that payment should be halted. The regional office picked up this discrepancy and discontinued payment immediately, because in the opinion of the department the church owes them the outstanding money.

The church in turn is of the opinion that the additional monies paid were regarded as rental. The department thus owes them i.e. the church, money. It was decided that the best way to clear the matter was to study the documentation i.e. receipts of payment of both parties. Documentation from both parties would be supplied to the provincial office whereupon a decision would be made; this would then be forwarded to the (VGKSA) by Friday 10 December 1999. Both parties agreed that the middle of February would be the finalisation date of this matter.

The church put forth the following conditions to prevent the auction of the schools. The first condition was for the department to agree to pay rent for use of the property according to the rates indicated in Table 7.1:

The second was that the legal costs should be borne by the provincial department of education. The department was scheduled to give a preliminary response on the conditions by 10 December 1999. The department will also send a team from the Provincial Public Works Department to measure the learning space and report to the Provincial Department. It was agreed that the section 14 Agreement should be completed between the parties by mid-February 2000.

The provincial department of education had exploratory discussions with the Northern Cape Agricultural Union. They agreed to discuss the proforma agreement with their affiliate organisations and put forth a proposed agreement, which would include aspects not covered in the Department’s proforma agreement. This in turn would serve as a base for the next round of discussions. The NCA had put together a two-man commission, their brief being, to look into the proforma agreement, discuss it with farmers and make recommendations to their Union. The Union in turn will furnish the department of education with a report. The NCAU has submitted a report to the department. From the NCAU’s report it has become apparent that the completion of Section 14 agreements with farmers will have to happen on a one on one bases. Also, there exists a great amount of resentment and distrust.

The department expected to have the agreements signed with CIE and the BGKSA by mid-February 2000. The department has also to seek a more effective method to deal with farmers’ needs. The department will have to decide on the payment of legal costs which were requested by the VGKSA and the cost per square meter of learner space as a basis for further negotiations.

The South African Schools Act of 1996 requires that all schools have school governing bodies (SGBs) which must be democratically elected every three (3) years. The first elections took place in 1997. These were supported by a massive logistical effort on the part of the Northern Cape Education Department (NCED) and the utilisation of the RDP funds.

The 2000 elections would be taking place under improved conditions and experience of the 1999 elections. The Northern Cape Education Department (NCED) has an up and running Education Management (EM) and School Governance Development (EM and SGD) unit and Community Development officers in the Regions (tasked with the support and servicing of SGBs), financial and technical support from RTI/DDSP. It therefore becomes once more important for the department, to put up a collective effort that will ensure that governing bodies are elected in a free, fair and relatively trouble-free manner to ensure legitimacy.

Training guides on the functions of school governing bodies, legislation related to school governing bodies, code of conduct and discipline, and roles, rights and responsibilities of LRC’s are available at all schools. The guides were developed by the Department of Education and distributed to schools by the Provincial EMD. Schools also have modules that were used after the first elections on responsibilities of SGB’s, conflict resolution and conflict management.

Community Development Officers who are based in the regions, as well as Circuit Managers have been trained immediately after the first SGB elections. They then trained a core team made up largely of principals to facilitate all workshops. Plans are in place to train more principals. Regions will identify centres for training. Guides received from the Department of Education will be used in training.

Progress with the completion of agreements between the MEC and owners of private property on which a school exists

Meetings were held with the owners of private property. The owners were inducted and encouraged to complete the contract forms which were later distributed to them. Follow-up circulars on completion of these contracts were made but farmers are not eager to sign the contracts. Some of the reasons for refusal are that the rental paid by the department is too little. Only one farmer has signed out of a possible 314 farmers.

Preparation and state of readiness of the province for the election of school governing bodies

The plan for conducting school governing body elections is in place. The plan for the election of LRCs in all secondary schools is also ready for implementation.

The plan for training school governing bodies is available and ongoing and focuses on:

Property owners have been identified and a meeting was held with them. Letters forwarding the agreements were sent to the property owners. The department is awaiting responses. The due date for the finalisation of the reports is 31 March 2000.

The Provincial Management Plan with due dates has been compiled. Progress is being monitored. No problems have been experienced yet

The provincial management plan includes specific training for the newly elected school governing bodies. The plan will be implemented after elections.

Progress with the completion of agreements between the MEC and owner of private property on which a school exists

The Western Cape Department of Education must sign leases with 424 owners of private property on which public schools exist. To date 109 schools have contracts in place out of 424.

Lease contract documents were drawn up, approved by the Western Cape Provincial Administration Legal Services and the State Attorney’s Office, and distributed to all the area offices during January and early February 1999. The first batch of signed contracts was submitted to the Provincial Treasury for approval. The Provincial Treasury requested additional amendments to the contracts. The amended contract documents were received from the Legal Services on 15 November 1999. The documents were then printed and distributed to the area offices.

Because of the great distances involved, as well as the reduction in travelling allowances for circuit managers during the 1999/2000 financial year, some of them had difficulty in visiting the owners of schools. In many cases numerous visits are made in order to reach clarity and finality. In some instances, the ownership of some of the private properties has not been determined. This problem has arisen in particular with the ELSEN schools, and some of the farm schools. The Head of Education sent a letter to the Area Managers on 21 January 2000, stating that all contracts had to be signed by the end of March 2000.

The Administrative component of the Western Cape Department of Education will assist circuit managers in the signing of the contracts and the concluding thereof before the deadline of 31 March 2000.

Preparation and state of readiness of the province for the election of school governing bodies

The Western Cape Department of Education started its preparation for the re-election of school governing bodies by circulating a letter to all schools and area managers with the instruction that elections should take place between 1 May and 30 September 2000.

The WCDE is in the process of revising the Regulations relating to school governing bodies for public schools so as to conform with the provisions of the Education Laws Amendment Act, 1999 (Act 48 of 1999).

Area managers of the department and principals of schools are in possession of a manual in which the procedure for the running of elections of governing bodies is clearly stipulated. The area managers, in collaboration with the principals, will plan and arrange elections in the different areas. The necessary facilities and resources will be provided by the WCED.

The WCDE has launched a number of projects to enhance the capacity of school governing bodies.

To raise the level of awareness of school governance amongst parents, learners and the wider community, regular newsletters pertaining to all aspects of school governance are sent to all role players. Apart from all school, copies are also sent to the Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Copies of the newsletter are also sent to local community radio stations and local community newspapers.

In order to facilitate workshops for school governors, especially those, who have never held public office, training units had to be established. In each circuit a training unit comprising four people, was established. A total of 270 people were trained in the generic design and facilitation of workshops.

The training units were then assisted to do a needs assessment in their respective circuits. Based on the needs assessments, workshops are designed and facilitated.

Material produced by the national Department of Education was distributed to all schools for the attention of school governing bodies and representative council of learners. Material has also been purchased from companies such as Clicks, Clothing Industry and Woolworths to serve as raw materials on which workshops can be designed for school governors. Material was also produced by respective training units, based on their needs assessment, and all materials are stored in a resource centre from where they are translated, copied and distributed to other training units who might need them.

This publication is to serve as a guide and reference source for school management and school governance. It is to become a "living" document that would grow, develop and keep pace with the new vision of WCDE in terms of school based management. Copies in English and/or Afrikaans have been delivered to all schools and WCDE employees concerned. It is envisaged that the document will be translated into Xhosa during the course of the year.

In order to ensure that all secondary, intermediate and combined schools have democratically elected RCLs, forms were sent to all schools concerned and a data base was established for this purpose. Workshops are also facilitated to clusters of RLCs, and in some cases to individual RCLs, in order to ensure that they understand their role and function in the democratisation process of the education system.

Seven of the nine provinces have not made any significant progress towards the completion of agreements between the MEC and owners of private property on which their respective public schools exist even though the Act has been effective for four full years. Three provinces have not had a single agreement signed according to information currently available. The reasons for this vary from province to province. Some of these are: shortage of personnel to handle the process of completion of the agreements, the unwillingness of the owners of private property to enter into agreements even after lengthy negotiations, exhorbitant rentals charged by owners who are unwilling to settle for less rental and legal wrangles about the terms of the agreements. The situation is best summarised in Table 7.2.

Table 7.2: Summary of the number of agreements signed with owners of private property on which public schools exist according to province.

Province	No of farm schools	No of agreements signed	% agreements signed
Eastern Cape	648	0	0
Free State	1513	291	19
Gauteng	164	6	4
KwaZulu-Natal	571	10	0
Mpumalanga	628	15	2
Northern Cape	107	0	0
Northern Province	314	1	0
North-West	461	0	0
Western Cape*	424	109	26
TOTAL	4830	432	9

Only Free State and Western Cape have made some progress. Even so the percentages are still very low considering the period of four years.

All the provinces are on target with preparations for the election of school governing bodies including the election of members of learner representative councils. Programmes have been prepared in all provinces for the training of newly elected members of school governing bodies. In some cases training of school governing bodies has commenced, particularly those that have been granted the allocated functions provided for in section 21 of the South African Schools Act, 1996.

School	Rental per month
Vioolsdrift	R3 000
Rooiwal	R2 500
Bulletrap	R2 000
Henkries	R1 700
Goodhouse	R1 500
Total	R10 700

SECTION 7

EVALUATION OF PROGRESS WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL POLICIES