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Almost all Eastern Cape schools will start the second term next week with a full inventory of stationery and “top-up” textbooks, says education department head Dr Naledi Mbude. The belated deliveries follow a terrible nine-week first term in which the majority of the province’s 5,080 schools went without the required stationery and textbooks.
Despite the appalling state of many Eastern Cape schools, the provincial education department has been forced to return R205m of unused funds meant for construction, maintenance, upgrades and infrastructure rehabilitation.
“I am sincerely and unreservedly sorry,” provincial education departmental head Dr Naledi Mbude said to pupils, parents and teachers whose schools nine weeks into the school year have still not received their full complement of stationery and textbooks. She has much to apologise for, say educational activists.
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