PHUTI MOSOMANE
DUE to tender irregularities, most of the 5,400 schools in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), which are beneficiaries of the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP), were without food this week, causing hundreds of thousands of learners to go hungry upon returning from their Easter Holidays.
The Department of Education in KZN awarded a single individual a multi-million rand tender to supply food to schools across the province.
The scandal has put the department’s planning under the spotlight, and the MEC of education, Mbali Frazer, has promised to address the issues as soon as possible.
However, the details about who was awarded the tender remain undisclosed.
There are concerns that tenders are often awarded through corruption and irregularities, and the ActionSA KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Chairperson, Zwakele Mncwango, has called for transparency on how the tender was awarded.
The restoration of the NSNP is expected to take place by the close of business on
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