2020-w1614 - 06 January 2020

Désirée Van Der Walt to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)With reference to spending cuts announced by the Minister of Finance on 30 October 2019, (a) what is the total cut to the budget for her department and (b) which infrastructure projects are affected; (2) whether allocations to provinces will be affected; if so, (a) how and (b) what steps will be taken by her department to continue with the projects that are affected?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 6 Jan 2020

(1) (a) MTEF BASELINE REDUCTIONS

2020/21

R’000

2021/22

R’000

2022/23

R’000

(659 416)

(856 412)

(1 050 774)

1 (b)SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE BACKLOGS: Indirect Grant (buildings and other fixed structures)

2020/21

R’000

2021/22

R’000

2022/23

R’000

(32 623)

(43 836)

(46 345)

(1) (b) With regard to the provincial infrastructure programme funded through the Education Infrastructure Grant, the reduction will have a negative impact in terms of ...

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2020-w1289 - 06 January 2020

Ngwanamakwetle Reneiloe Mashabela to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)What is the total number of (a) disabled learners who attend full service schools in the Republic and (b) schools that have facilities for disabled students; (2) whether there is a disjuncture between the demand and supply for disabled learner facilities at the specified schools by her department?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 6 Jan 2020

1. (a) 570 471

    (b) There are 848 full service schools across the country.

2. In order to determine the demand and supply for disabled learners at full service schools, in August 2019, the Department of Basic education (DBE) issued Circular S4 of 2019 requesting Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) to assess the status quo and to develop plans to address such. This ...

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2020-w1605 - 06 January 2020

Nomsa Innocencia Tarabella Marchesi to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)Whether her department has conducted trial runs of the proposed comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to be taught in public schools from 2020; if so, (a) what number of schools participated in the trial run of the CSE, (b)(i) what is the name of each school and (ii) in which province is each school that participated in the trial run of the CSE, (c) for what period of time did each school participate in the trial run, (d) how did each of the participating schools receive the CSE and (e) what amount did her department spend on conducting the trial run;

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 6 Jan 2020

The Department reiterates that there is no new curriculum or topics introduced to the Life Skills (LS) or Life Orientation (LO) Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). In South Africa, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) has been providing Sexuality Education through the LS and LO CAPS since 2000.

There has been no piloting of a new CSE curriculum.

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2019-w654 - 09 December 2019

Liezl Linda van der Merwe to ask the Minister of Basic Education

With reference to the statement of the former President, Mr Jacob Zuma in his 2011 state of the nation address that all indigent school girls will receive free sanitary pads, (a)(i) what number of sanitary pads has been delivered to indigent school girls so far and (ii) in which provinces, (b) what number of indigent school girls have been identified by the Government as being in need of sanitary pads and (c) what is the time frame to ensure that all indigent school girls have access to sanitary pads?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

The Department of Basic Education does not have a programme on sanitary pads. As such, the data on sanitary pads offered in schools is not kept by the Department. In this regard, the question can be referred to the Department of Social Development and the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities who offer such programmes.

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2019-w1399 - 09 December 2019

Chantel King to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)(a) What is the status of the evaluation report on scholar transport that was prepared by her department, in co-operation with the Department of Transport and the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, (b) by what date will the specified report be released to the public and (c) what public participation processes will be accommodated; (2) what is the status on steps to impose standardised criteria and/or minimum standards on provinces, with specific reference to the (a) status of learner transport policies in each province and (b) progress made by each province to accommodate learners with disabilities in this regard?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

1.  (a) The Evaluation of the Learner Transport was commissioned by the Standing Committee on Appropriations and was led by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education, Department of Transport and the National Treasury. The report was completed and approved by the Project Steering Committee in June 2019. An improvement plan responding to evaluation recommendations was ...

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2019-w1606 - 09 December 2019

Nomsa Innocencia Tarabella Marchesi to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)With reference to her reply to question 1033 on 4 November 2019, what are the details of the support mechanisms that her department provides to educators who (a) are not comfortable with teaching comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and/or (b) simply refuse to teach CSE; (2) (a) what action will be taken against educators who refuse to teach CSE based on moral or religious objections, (b) who will teach the CSE classes if an educator refuses to teach CSE and (c) where will the extra educators come from to teach the CSE?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

1. (a) Teachers are provided with a 3 days training that covers the content and teaching methodologies used and how to use the Scripted Lesson Plans (SLPs), including lesson demonstrations. Subject Advisors are also provided with coaching and mentoring training to be able to provide continuous support to teachers during implementation.

(b)Life Orientation (LO) teachers can’t refuse to teach CSE as it is part ...

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2019-w1206 - 09 December 2019

Chantel King to ask the Minister of Basic Education

What number of learners (a) fell pregnant from 1 June 2018 to 30 June 2019, (b) what is the age range of the learners and (c) what is the name of each province in which the pregnancies were recorded?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

(a)(b)(c)

The Department of Health (DoH) has been recording data on the number of deliveries in health facilities since 2017 through the District Information Health System (DHIS). As at April 2018 – March 2019, the DHIS report showed the number of teen births between 10 – 19 years in all nine (9) provinces was 121 099 compared to 117 055 in the 2017/18 financial year. A ...

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2019-w1607 - 09 December 2019

Désirée Van Der Walt to ask the Minister of Basic Education

With reference to the statement released by her department on 17 September 2019, (a) what is the name of each stakeholder her department (i) engaged with and (ii) consulted regarding the comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, (b) where was each stakeholder engagement or consultation held and (c) what was the outcome of each stakeholder engagement and/or consultation?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

(a) – (c)

The DBE do not offer a Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum as Sexuality Education has been offered through the Life Skills (LS) and Life Orientation (LO) Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) since 2000.

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2019-w1460 - 09 December 2019

Désirée Van Der Walt to ask the Minister of Basic Education

With reference to the introduction of the Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative programme, which schools in each province appeared on the original list;

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

The Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI)’s original list targeted to eradicate 510 inappropriate schools, provide water to 1117 schools, sanitation to 701 schools and electricity to 902 schools as indicated in the below table:

Province

Original ASIDI List

 

Inappropriate Schools

Water

Sanitation

Electricity

EC

442

620

344

317

FS

30

98

26

129

GP

3

0

28

2

KZN

3

229

140 ...

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2019-w1604 - 09 December 2019

Nomsa Innocencia Tarabella Marchesi to ask the Minister of Basic Education

(1)With reference to her reply to question 1033 on 4 November 2019, what are the details of the procedure that needs to be followed by parents to (a) have their children opt out of comprehensive sexuality education and (b) submit an alternative curriculum that is approved in accordance with the requirements of the Curriculum Assesment Policy Statement (CAPS); (2) whether any parents have used the opt-out option since the inception of the revised Life Orientation curriculum; if so, (a) what number of learners have opted out and (b) what alternative CAPS-approved curriculums are the learners following?

Reply from the Minister of Basic Education on 9 Dec 2019

1.  (a) and (b)

The response to Question 1033 is not to be interpreted that parents may opt out of sections of the CAPS curriculum. The response in fact suggests that parents have the right to choose where they send their children to school. At any point a parent can opt out of the CAPS curriculum by seeking another curriculum like Cambridge or the ...

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