(1) The evaluation of curriculum materials is the competence of the National Department of Basic Education (DBE). For this purpose, the DBE has set up a Task Team that has two evaluators from the Western Cape and KwaZulu- Natal provinces who are qualified in South African Sign Language (SASL).
(2) (a) and (b) Teachers and Deaf Teaching Assistants (DTAs) trained in SASL CAPS:
Province |
(a) Number of teachers |
(b) Number of Deaf Teaching Assistants |
Total |
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SP |
FET |
SP |
FET |
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EC |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
16 |
FS |
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
9 |
GT |
11 |
7 |
11 |
6 |
35 |
KZN |
13 |
5 |
8 |
3 |
29 |
LP |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
MP |
3 |
- |
3 |
- |
6 |
NC |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
NW |
6 |
- |
7 |
- |
13 |
WC |
8 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
14 |
Total: |
52 |
24 |
39 |
18 |
133 |
(3) Only KwaZulu Natal and Western Cape have subject specialists who are SASL Linguists. The other seven (7) Provincial Education Departments are dependent on Language Subject Advisors who have been orientated by the DBE to carry out this role, as an interim measure.