By Johnathan Paoli
Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile has announced the review of the department’s decentralised management model used in public schools following mounting debt to municipalities, widespread billing disputes and disruptions to teaching caused by water and electricity cut-offs.
In a press briefing at Lyndhurst Primary School in Johannesburg on Sunday, Maile maintained that despite the potential benefits that decentralisation could provide to the province, it has become inevitably necessary to review the model.
“For this reason, we are reviewing the decentralisation model. This has been made necessary by the impediments that it has posed, particularly as it pertains to challenges with financial management and sound governance, which result in the non-payment of municipal services,” Maile said.
Maile outlined the growing financial and infrastructure pressures facing Gauteng’s education system, warning that rapid in-migration, overcrowding and ageing infrastructure were threatening the sustainability of basic education in the province.
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