More than 5,200 school workers don’t get January stipends in payment fiasco

Eastern Cape education accused of ‘financial and administrative incompetence’ for monumental mess-up

09 March 2022 - 19:39

The Eastern Cape education department has bungled the payment of stipends to thousands of education and general assistants by underpaying 1,892 schools...

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