"Backlog as Free Education Extended"
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 18 Oct, 2008Report in the Weekender (18 October 2008)
"AS THE African National Congress (ANC) prepares to extend free education to 60% of schools next year, it has emerged that little has been done in the past year to ease infrastructure backlogs at the poorest schools.
After almost 15 years of democracy, and an education department with a budget allocation larger than any other government department, there remain thousands of schools across the country that still do not have sanitation, water, electricity, science laboratories or sports facilities."