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“R5 billion withheld: The EC school funding crisis

Since 2020, the Eastern Cape Department of Education has retained about R5 billion from the budgets of its poorest schools, ostensibly for “centralised procurement”. Some of that…

  • Rod Amner
  • Laney van Wyk
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