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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 121

FIGURE 5.5: EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN ZULULAND DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY j?7

FIGURE 5.5: EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN ZULULAND DISTRICT<br />

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