Gauteng MEC of education Matome Chiloane says municipalities are one of their biggest problems when it comes to growing school capacity in the province, as they delay in approving their plans and also make ridiculous demands in exchange for approving their applications for schools.
He said this on Thursday as he gave an update on Gautengs grade 1 and grade 8 admissions, revealing that 467 schools have reached full capacity.
Municipalities have been quite a bit of a problem... If a private developer comes and says he wants to build an estate, they approve those plans very quickly. But when a school comes... it takes forever.
