JOHANNESBURG - Basic Education managed to build just one school in the past financial year, a far cry from the target of nine.
This single project replaced a school made of unsafe materials.
That makes the department’s plan to deliver 30 new schools by March seem overambitious.
It blames budget cuts for the failure to deliver.
But Equal Education says inefficiency and mismanagement are the real culprits.
Mahfouz Raffee, a researcher at Equal Education, unpacks this further.