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KZN treasury intervenes in education department
August 28, 2025
|The Mercury
Dire state of finances
AMID a devastating cash crunch, the KwaZulu-Natal treasury has intervened in the financial affairs of the Department of Education.
The treasury announced that the department will now be restricted from basic spending, including purchasing desks or other assets.
The treasury intervened as the education sector faces a deepening financial crisis, owing millions of rand to suppliers—some for more than a year. It is understood that the department has “accruals and payables” amounting to R2.3 billion and at least R1.2bn of this amount is overdue from 2023.
The department was recently bailed out by the provincial government so that it could pay the norms and standards provisioning to schools. The education department attributed the ongoing crisis to budget cuts imposed by the national government over recent years. As a result of these cuts, the department has lost close to R26bn and anticipates losing another R5bn in the coming years.
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