In 1996 the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 both identified the essential role that independent schools would need to play in order for the new national education strategy to be achieved.
Many independent schools were started during the previous government in order to assist with the education of disadvantaged learners who were not catered for at that time. At meetings of the Gauteng Education Portfolio Committee held at the Gauteng legislature it was proven that not only do independent schools cost the state less than one third of what they would have paid to educate a learner in a public school, while costing parents less to send their children to these schools than to former model ”C” schools, but that independent schools in the province have during the period 2009 to 2017 often achieved a higher average matric pass rate than that achieved by...
The full time school caters mainly for learners that live in the inner city. However many also come from areas such as Katlehong, Thokoza, Soweto and Alexandra. A minority of learners come from outside South Africa’s borders.