NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 3469
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 11/11/2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 38/2011)
Mr W M Madisha (Cope) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
1) With reference to her reply to question 25 on 2 September 2009, how
many volunteers of the Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign have been
directed towards Foundation Phase training in the (a) 2009-10 and
(b) 2010-11 financial years? NW4143E
(1)(a) In the financial year 2009-10 the Kha Ri Gude Mass
Literacy Campaign had the following categories and numbers of
volunteers as indicated in the table below:
|Category of volunteers |Number |
|Monitors |37 |
|Coordinators |197 |
|Supervisors |3 480 |
|Educators |37 243 |
|Assistants for blind educators |108 |
|Total |41 065 |
The Campaignsâ mandate is to provide literacy classes for
illiterate adults. Hence whatever training that has been
provided to the volunteers has concentrated on the use of the
Learner Teacher Support Materials (LTSM) intended for adults and
teaching methodologies appropriate for adult learners.
Since the Campaigns life span is supposed to stretch up to
financial year 2014/15, Kha Ri Gude has strived to retain the
volunteers for as long as possible because, based on
observations, their teaching proficiencies have tended to
improve with the number of years of experience that they have
been on the Kha Ri Gude programme. It should also be borne in
mind that the majority of the volunteers are matriculants
without a teaching qualification.
Therefore none of the Kha Ri Gude volunteers have been directed
towards Foundation Phase training in the 2009-10 financial year.
(1)(b) The breakdown of the volunteers for the 2010-11 financial
year is indicated below as follows:
|Category of volunteers |Number |
|Monitors |37 |
|Coordinators |186 |
|Supervisors |3 480 |
|Educators |33 602 |
|Assistants for blind educators |121 |
|Total |37 426 |
Again as stated under (1)(a) above and without having to repeat
what has been said there, none of the volunteers stated in the
above table have been directed towards Foundation Phase training
in the 2010-11 financial year.