Inside Education Reporter
Basic Education Director-General, Mathanzima Mweli, has continued with the monitoring and support programme of the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) construction sites as part of the Batch 4 Projects in the Eastern Cape Province.
Mweli monitored 102 schools in three Education Districts to ensure that deadlines are met and Implementing Agents complete projects timeously. The focus last week has been on projects allocated to the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) Implementing Agent.
The DG led a team of various experts in Education planning development and implementation; Finance and Accounting; Engineers; Quantity Surveyors; Architects and Project Managers to accomplish this huge task to ensure that the DBE fulfills its role of monitoring and support.
Weather conditions were fair, and the team navigated bad terrains on days one and two to monitor 26 and 24 schools respectively. On day three, the team managed to monitor 23 projects and on Thursday and Friday, 24 and 5 were monitored respectively.
Most projects have reached practical completion but have errors, omissions and poor workmanship which need urgent attention, Mweli said.
However, innovation will be key to salvage some of the challenges that are affecting the quality of some of the projects. The report will be shared with NECT officials for a remedial plan to urgently address the aforementioned.
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