the main target set at municipality level was to improve students reading skills so the reading programmes were allocated more time than the afl programmes this is also one of the main findings from struggling municipalities that were included in this report they do not seem to be able to coordinate competing programmes initiated by the directorate and so sometimes afl is not prioritised due to lack of capacity both school leaders and teachers express concerns and a sense of guilt when they are not able to work on afl as they know it is a part of the education act despite the shortcomings listed above however the school leader from school was satisfied with the municipalitylevel support in general