Strategic Planning
The Strategic Plan of the Department of Education in the 6th Administration of the Northern Cape for the 2020 to 2025 Medium Term Strategic Framework is informed by the strategic focus of "Building the Elements of, Capacity for and Momentum towards a Modern, Growing and Successful Education System in the Northern Cape." This strategic vision is informed, amongst others, by the 2019 Election Manifesto.
The 2019 Election Manifesto
In the 2014 Manifesto, we committed ourselves to eradicating illiteracy. Today 9 out of 10 adult South Africans can read and write, and an illiteracy-free South Africa is within our reach. The ANC in its June 2019 General Election Manifesto acknowledged that Children from poor communities have access to quality free education. The Question is, is that enough? The Answer is NO!!! Our education system and training apparatus still need radical improvements.
It is for this reason that we must “Build the Elements of, Capacity for and Momentum towards a Modern, Growing and Successful Education System in the Northern Cape."
As we confront the intense difficulties at our schools and come face-to-face with our teaching and learning challenges, inter alia, the decline in our NSC results, regression in reading, writing, comprehension and computing - it is the example of acting in our own interests that we need to recover. This means, minimally, that we hold everybody to account, from the management to teachers and to students and administrators in our schools (ourselves included).