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R800 million bailout for KZN Education Department
The Mercury
|October 03, 2025
The financially constrained KwaZulu-Natal Education Department will soon commence with procurement of learning and teaching support materials (LTSM) after receiving an R800 million bail out from the provincial treasury.
In a joint media briefing in Pietermaritzburg yesterday, Finance MEC Francois Rodgers announced that he has sourced funds for LTSM and to assist the department in running the final examinations for all grades.
Rodgers, who had announced a few days earlier that the Education Department has no available funds to order textbooks, said after meeting with MEC Sipho Hlomuka, they agreed that the department would receive R800 million to start placing orders for the textbooks for next year.
“On the LT'SM, we are looking at R881m which is what we tried to take out of the baseline of the department. The money includes running the exams. We have taken into account that additional funding will come from the National Treasury during the budget adjustment. The LTSM process can start now,’ said Rodgers.
This story is from the October 03, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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