Hamlet equation : a conceptual exercise in settlement

Minimal social services must include a permanent water supply, school to standard IV older children can walk to the village, a clinic visited weekly a store and postal agency, with a telephone booth, and a kgotla. Starting with the 4-standard school, this represents 4classes of 30 children, i. e 120 children. These represent one quarter of the child age group 0-16 years, which must therefore be 480 say 560.if 40% of the total population are a children then the total group is 1200.The educational planner, ministry of education, arrived at the same figure by other means. Allowing 6 persons per family, this represents 200 families conservation indicates that a group of this size is sufficient to justify the other services mentioned above.