Question NW4490 to the Minister of Basic Education to ask the Minister of Basic Education
07 December 2022 - NW4490
Nodada, Mr BB to ask the Minister of Basic Education to ask the Minister of Basic Education
(1) What is the total number of (a) single-medium schools, (b) double-medium schools and (c) parallel-medium schools (i) nationally and (ii) provincially; (2) what is the total number of single language of instruction schools for each of the official languages (a) nationally and (b) provincially?
Reply:
(1)(2)(a)
Table 1 below shows that majority of schools (5 875) are English single medium schools followed by Afrikaans (1 004) single medium schools. With regards to schools that uses African Languages as single medium, majority of schools are IsiXhosa Single Medium.
(b) Dual Medium schools are schools that uses two languages of instruction by a teacher in a lesson, switching from one language of instruction to another during a lesson. The Department does not collect information on Dual Medium Schools.
(c)
Table 2 below shows that the majority of parallel-medium schools are found in KwaZulu-Natal (3 807) teaching in IsiZulu and English follwed by the Eastern Cape (3 614) teaching in IsiXhosa and English.
