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ASIDI projects in the Northern Cape province1

A total of 21 schools will be furnished with sanitation and water including one new school which will cost R 25 m as part of the Accelerated School Infrastructure Development Initiative said MEC for Education, Ms Grizelda Cjiekella.

She was speaking during her budget and policy statement at the provincial legislature.

The name of the school that will be established is Sternham primary school.

MEC Cjiekella, said construction will commence soon at three multiyear new schools which will each costs an estimated R 40 m each:

-          Wrenchville PS

-          Emmanuel HS

-          Jan Kempsdorp HS

Given the rapid urbanisation and pressure on current schools in the district, three newly constructed schools will be opened in the Siyanda district. This is part of the flagship projects of the school infrastructure projects that will come to fruition in the next quarter.

A further three (3) new schools in Louisvale, Kakamas and Paballelo will be opening to service the local communities when schools reopen in September. She said some of the investment projects include building of about 41 classrooms, 5 media centres, 54 ECD classrooms and 11 administration blocks, all to be completed in the current financial year. Sixteen more schools are to be provided with state of the art security fences to deal with vandalism.

The overall Education Infrastructure Grant budget for the 2013/14 financial year is R 316, 9 bn. In keeping with government’s job creation opportunity priority, the department has been allocated R 5, 8m as part of the Infrastructure EPWP Incentive Grant. The target is to create 109 temporary jobs through 12 infrastructure and 9 environment projects to be funded from this grant. Additional work opportunities for out of school youth will be created through the Social EPWP Incentive Grant which is to the tune of R 3, 9 m. A total of 129 full time equivalent work opportunities will be created during this current financial year.