Basic education faces forced funding cut crisis
15 September 2024 - 00:00
In last weekend’s Sunday Times (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2024-09-08-catastrophe-looms-over-school-funding-crisis/), the KwaZulu-Natal education MEC, Sipho Hlomuka, made a chilling statement about the fiscal emergency his department is facing: “The department is left with little to no funding for the payment of fixed operational costs, municipal accounts, payment to suppliers within 30 days, procurement of learner support material and effecting transfer payments to schools.”..
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