POOR INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS INTO DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA

Abstract

The South African Government’s Comprehensive Rural Development
Programme (CRDP) was launched in August 2009 by government with the
specific aim of assisting rural communities realise their socio-economic
livelihoods through government support. Bushbuckridge Municipality was
identified by former president Thabo Mbeki in 2009 as an area that qualified for
CRDP intervention by government due to its high poverty levels. This implied
that even provision of educational resources by the government was going to be
informed by the status of the municipality. The research focused on the poor
state of school infrastructure in Ximhungwe Circuit, Bohlabela district,
Mpumalanga province.