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The Dr Ruth S Mompati district is situated in the North-West Province. This district has three borders, two in the north-west and one border in the south with the Northern Cape Province. The two borders in the north are with Ngaka Modiri Molema and Dr Kenneth Kaunda. The Dr Ruth S Mompati district is one of the four districts of the North-West Province. It was previously part of the former Bophuthatswana homeland. In figure 6.2 the section in red is the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District where the research was done.

In South Africa, thirteen areas were declared as nodal areas by the President of the country in 2007. These areas were earmarked for accelerated development. The

environments were specially chosen as part of the rural development framework. People living in these rural areas live in poverty-stricken conditions depending only on social grants provided by the Department of Social Services.

Some areas in the Dr Ruth S Mompati District are part of the nodal area.Nodal areas are deep rural areas where poverty-stricken communities live. The highest percentage of people living in poverty (56.5%) is in the district where the research was done. The district Ngaka Modiri Molema follows Dr Ruth S Mompati with a percentage of 56.4% .Many of learners in the full-service schools are orphans and live with an aged grandmother or an older brother or sister who heads the family. The socio-economic status of the people has a negative influence of the quality of their lives. Truancy, high dropout rates, teenage pregnancy and substance abuse are critical concerns in the district. The Department of Education in the province and district could be proud of the 2013 Grade 12 results in spite of the extreme poverty in the province. The North-West Province took the third position in the country. The district is South Africa’s largest beef producer and is named the “Texas of South Africa”. Maize and peanuts are important crops produced in the district.

Figure 6.2 below provides a map of the Dr Ruth S Mompati District (red section), where the research was conducted. The district was renamed after the previous mayor of Vryburg, Dr Ruth S Mompati.

This district is situated in the western part of the North-West Province. Dr Ruth S Mompati District is one of the four districts of the North-West Province. As can be seen from the map, this region consists of a large area. It was previously part of the former Bophuthatswana homeland.

Figure 6.2 Dr Ruth S Mompati District

(Source: Government Communication & Information System, 2012:2)

In 2007 some areas in this district were declared nodal areas by the president of the country. Nodal areas are deep rural areas where poverty-stricken communities live. The district under discussion has a 60 percent nodal area, where people live in impoverished conditions, with the social grant supplied by the Department of Social Development as their only income.

Figure 6.3 Logo of Dr Ruth S Mompati District in the North-West Province (Source: Government Communication & Information System, 2012:4)

The logo of the Dr Ruth S Mompati district municipality is derived from the previous name, Bophirima, which means “the place where the sun sets”. The circle represents the sun setting. The colours red, blue and white are seen at dusk and they reflect the last rays of the sunlight. The green colour indicates the agriculture of the district, which produces maize and peanuts. The people in the local government say on a lighter note that “there are more cattle in the district than people”, which is the brown colour in the logo (Government Communication & Information System, 2012:4).

The district has villages and urban residential areas called townships in the South African context. The township is part of a town and is referred to as a township for Coloureds, Indians or Blacks depending on the residing population group. The full-service schools

(FSSs) participating in the research are situated in the surrounding villages (Government Communication & Information System, 2012:2). Two of them are situated in the nodal area in two different villages, one in another village and one in a township. A village is a community in a rural area in South Africa and falls under the jurisdiction of the tribal office. The chief of the village is the most important resident and takes charge of the village. In the area where the research was conducted electricity is available in the township and villages, although there is often a power failure when it rains heavily or during strong winds. There is a clinic in two of the villages and a mobile dental service comes once a month.

There is sanitation in the village schools, although one has a septic toilet, basically an outhouse. It is a hole dug into the ground and receives human waste. It services only one household and thus it is not what a whole school should have (https;//answers. yahoo. com. questions 2008/7/1). The other two village schools have flushing toilets, but there is no water nearby to flush. The villagers use water from boreholes for consumption and gardening. According to the knowledge of the researcher, the water was hygienic for drinking when she was visiting the schools (South African Government www.gov.za,

2015:1-2). Most of the schools have sanitation with flushing toilets, but water is also a scarcity because of the drought in the area (South African Government www.gov.za,

2015:1-2). The teachers at full-service schools in the Dr Ruth S Mompati District where the

research was conducted were grouped at their schools and grouped across grades and phases. There are forty full-service schools in this district. Eight full-service schools were used in the actual research project and four of the eight schools were used in a pilot study.