Durban - FOUR Education Department officials have been suspended in connection with the multimillion-rand sanitary towels scandal.
The project was first piloted in KZN and was surrounded by controversy in 2018 when teacher unions blew the whistle on the corruption that left schools with an over supply of pads. “It was no longer about needy girls. It became an issue of all schools in quintile 1-4 and even quintile 5 were getting pads for free. Even girls in grade 4 who were not yet in that stage of using sanitary pads were being given. Some schools were returning them back,” said Mshengu.
Funding for the project was initially set at R20 million to benefit 900 000 pupils, but the amount had been increased to R109m.Sources close to the investigation yesterday said the four officials were fingered in the scandal when former Education MEC Mthandeni Dlungwana launched an investigation in 2018, but their suspensions were kept under wraps.
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