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Public schools, including former Model C schools, are reeling after the education department indicated it would be withholding 33.7% of their budgets for next year.
Thousands of no-fee schools in the Eastern Cape have been struggling to operate since 2020 due to budget cuts .
Schools now set to receive missing R872.5-million
For years, subsidies have been withheld from the poorest Eastern Cape schools, which have been surviving on 38% of what they were entitled to from the ECDOE.