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plans will serve as a guide both to the department and the municipality in the housing delivery
process (IDP-Zululand District Municipality, 2006).
Although recreation and tourism are physical infrastructural resources, this study seeks to
place them under economic development due to their enormous socio-economic prospects
they implicitly offer to the area under study.
5.5 SOCIAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES
An analysis of the levels of access to social services and facilities provides an important
perspective ofthe severe socio-economic conditions that are experienced by many households
in Zululand. The following sections examine relative levels of accessibility of households to
the following services and facilities: schools, health care, pension pay points, police stations,
community halls and recreation facilities. The study acknowledges fire-fighting and other
emergency services in its outlook, but it concentrates on the most common services and
facilities mentioned earlier in this section. In this research work, the level of provision of
social services rendered to the people of Ulundi is a barometer of municipal performance.
Effective service delivery and performance management systems of the municipal
management of Ulundi are assessed based on how satisfactory the provision of services has
been in the study area
5.5.1 Access to education facilities
There are 448 Primary, 81 Combined and 186 Secondary Schools (Total: 715) in Zululand
(Figure 5.5). The spatial distribution of these schools was analysed by the Zululand District
Municipality (ZDM) in relation to the population distribution and school occupancy rates.
The critical elements relating to the provision of education facilities are not the number of
schools, but their locality, condition and size. It should be noted that only 60% of creches
from the data base ofthe Department of Social Welfare could be mapped. The locations of
the remaining creches need to be investigated as a separate process (IDP-Zululand District
Municipality, 2006). In the light ofthis study the situation ofeducation facilities in relation to
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