# The Western Cape is the only province in the country without schools in poor condition. This is according to minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, who told Parliament that the province leads in school infrastructure. The Eastern Cape has the highest number of schools in poor or very poor condition, with one-thousand-and-90 in total. Gwarube says the country has 22-thousand-529 public schools, and of these, 390 are in very poor condition while one-thousand-850 are in poor condition. She adds that stagnant budgets and slow infrastructure delivery are worsening the crisis.
Western Cape has no schools in poor condition