Picture: North West MEC for Education, Viola Motsumi
By KEDIBONE MOLAETSI
11 March 2026- A two days Strategic Planning Lekgotla for the North West Department of Education took place at Seasons Wedding Centre in Mahikeng, from 9-10 March 2026. The Lekgotla was attended by the executive and senior management of the department to tighten the operational and administrative strategies that drove the education system forward.
The North West MEC for Education, Viola Motsumi said a focal point of the Lekgotla was to analyse, adjust and give more service delivery meaning to the annual performance plan, annual report and action plan towards schooling 2030, with more emphasis on goals and objectives that will be reached through achievable indicators and targets. Motsumi said more importantly, the main objectives of the Strategic Planning Lekgotla are to review the Branch Lekgotla resolutions, rationalise Branch indicators, align targets to budget, sign off Branch APP and review TIDs, SOPS and AOP.
“The 2026 Lekgotla is intended to address all the challenges and identify key deliverables that are clear, realistic, measureable, attainable, time bound and open for easy monitoring and implementation going forward.
“Most significantly, the departmental priorities should encapsulate our statements that we stated in the 2026/ 2027 Annual Performance Plan of the North West Department of Education. Incorporation of the SONA, SOPA and provincial programme of action is taken into consideration,” she said.
Motsumi further said the Lekgotla is redirecting management of the department to realise and implement the vision statement of the department in line with the set priorities of government and the current service delivery demand throughout the sector. She added that the Lekgotla has been joined by NECT to present on the important expectations and key identified challenges to be addressed by the department.
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