Eastern Cape education skips cheaper option for R220m consultancy

Officials hire a middleman to provide tutors, an expense a teachers’ union calls a fruitless expenditure

16 May 2022 - 19:37

The Eastern Cape education department has been outsourcing the after-hour teaching of almost all grade 12 subjects to private companies at a cost of hundreds of millions of rand — while there is an option to do it more cheaply in-house. ..

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