Fedsas fingers Education departments

"One of the biggest threats to education in South Africa is government officials. Mismanagement, incompetence and wilful political ignorance at the level of provincial education departments remain the weak link in the education chain

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Dr Jaco Deacon, CEO: Fedsas, made this shocking claim this week.

"Only three of the nine provinces have made the compulsory payments to schools by the deadline of May 15. Schools receive two annual payments before or on May 15 and before or on November 15 in accordance with the National Norms and Standards for School Funding. The only education departments that adhered to the statutory deadline were the Western Cape, Free State and Limpopo."

He said all South Africans should be up in arms about this as schools really struggle to get by, and many do not have money to pay for even basic expenses.

"Education departments boast about the matric pass rate of 87.3%, which is in stark contrast to the departments' failure rate of a mere 33%," says Deacon.