Question NW250 to the Minister of Basic Education

Reply:

(a) (b)

Table 1 below indicates the number of schools that (a) are using and (b) are not using English as medium of instruction. It shows that about 23 474 schools are English medium schools and 1 391 are using other languages as medium of instruction. Please note that these schools are not only single medium schools, they can be parallel medium, meaning they use two or more languages as medium of instruction.

Table 1: Number of English and none English medium schools, by province, in 2018

Province	English	Not English	Total
Eastern Cape	4 922	291	5 213
Free State	1 121	69	1 190
Gauteng	2 769	138	2 907
KwaZulu-Natal	5 938	42	5 980
Limpopo	3 927	50	3 977
Mpumalanga	1 694	49	1 743
Northern Cape	389	183	572
North West	1 447	63	1 510
Western Cape	1 267	506	1 773
Total	23 474	1 391	24 865

Source: 2018 LURITS