Question NW3821 to the Minister of Basic Education to ask the Minister of Basic Education
16 November 2022 - NW3821
Nodada, Mr BB to ask the Minister of Basic Education to ask the Minister of Basic Education
(1) What total number of mother tongue education facilities and schools exist (a) nationally and (b) provincially; (2) what is the (a)(i) name, (ii) town and/or city and (iii) province of each specified education facility and/or school and (b) language of teaching of each; (3) what is the matric pass rate of each facility and/or school since each school and/or education facility was established?
Reply:
1. (a) and (b)
The Department of Basic Education advocates for learners to learn through their home languages. This is particularly so in the Foundation Phase, where learners learn the critical foundational skills of reading, writing and numeracy. Post the Foundation Phase, the majority of our learners from African languages background switch to English First Additional Language as the medium of instruction.
Learners in schools that adopted English Home Language and Afrikaans Home Language, as their languages of learning and teaching continue to use these two languages up to Grade 12. The table below attempts to provide a response for 1(a) nationally and (b) provincially.
|
Row Labels / Province |
COMBINED SCHOOL |
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL |
PRIMARY SCHOOL |
SECONDARY SCHOOL |
Grand Total / National |
|
|
EC |
1 324 |
8 |
3 255 |
905 |
5 492 |
|
|
FS |
146 |
|
754 |
333 |
1 233 |
|
|
GP |
214 |
33 |
1598 |
819 |
2 664 |
|
|
KZN |
375 |
3 |
3858 |
1718 |
5 954 |
|
|
LP |
165 |
45 |
2 435 |
1 318 |
3 963 |
|
|
MP |
73 |
146 |
1 042 |
513 |
1 774 |
|
|
NC |
113 |
3 |
316 |
121 |
553 |
|
|
NW |
89 |
6 |
994 |
400 |
1 489 |
|
|
WC |
116 |
1 |
1114 |
460 |
1 691 |
|
|
Grand Total |
2 615 |
245 |
15 366 |
6 587 |
24 813 |
|
2.(a)(i)(ii)(iii) and (b)
The Eastern Cape Bilingual Based Mother Tongue Education programme has 1 953 schools, where English, together with IsiXhosa and Sesotho, are used as languages of learning and teaching up to Grade 8. The list of schools is herein attached as Annexure A.
3. The attached document (Annexure B) provides matric pass rate from a sample of seven schools.