Pre-school education lagging behind

Mbaakanyi was speaking at the handing over of a pre-school by Tati Nickel Mining Company to the community of Matshelagabedi Village last week. Mbaakanyi quoted the Revised National Policy on Education of 1994, which recommended that government provision of pre-primary education be deferred until the backlog of classrooms, teachers' housing and toilets in primary schools was cleared.

"Presently, access to pre-school education is a meagre 17 per cent nationally," she said.
Mbaakanyi said this left the provision of pre-school education to the private sector, community organisations and churches to fill in the gap.