As part of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education programme for the term, the Portfolio Committee undertook oversight visits to the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo Provinces to monitor the state of readiness of schools for the 1st term of 2012. Coupled to these visits, the Portfolio Committee also had a keen interest in those schools which may have been declared National Heritage Sites. The Ohlange Senior Secondary School in Inanda, Durban was one such privileged school and a delegation of the Portfolio Committees on Basic Education, undertook an oversight and monitoring visit to the school on Monday, 20 February 2012.