Equal Education says R431m spent on 'unnecessary decontamination' could have built five schools

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Equal education says the R431m used by the Gauteng education department on the deep-cleaning of schools could have been used to build five new facilities in the province.

According to the report, the process of decontamination and deep-cleaning was aimed at limiting the survival of coronavirus and minimising the transmission in Gauteng education facilities.

“The decontamination, disinfection and cleaning of educational facilities commenced in June in preparation for the opening of schools on June 8. This disinfection involved 2,207 schools and the 38 admin buildings. The case management strategy, in the beginning, was based on the understanding that after a person had tested positive, the facility would have to be decontaminated, disinfected and deep cleaned. The work was generally only paid from September 2020.

Equal Education, however, was adamant that Lesufi’s department needed to account why public money was spent on “fogging”, despite the department of basic education’s Covid-19 standard operating procedure explicitly stating that fogging was not recommended. “Wasteful spending is especially unacceptable right now when money is desperately needed for school infrastructure and school meals. Decreases to the education infrastructure grant have resulted in more than 300 Gauteng school infrastructure projects — costing R223m — being stopped or delayed. The national school nutrition programme did not get any new money from the Treasury last year, even though the DBE has said that it might run out of money to provide food parcels.

 

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This proves how inept these authorities are! Shame SA.

Why is it that MYANC political principals like Ministers, MEC's &MMC's do not have their fingers on the pulse & do not know what is going on in their depts? Politicians may not interfere in the work of their officials, but that is not an excuse to be unaware. ANCCorruption?

Show us the heads rolling and the money paid back. MOVE IT!

ZeldalaGrangeSA The money must be paid back!

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More than 5 of we’re being honest since when does a govt school cost R100m to build this is absolutely ridiculous 😂🤣😂🤣😂

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lesufi these are people's children you monster

And build health facilities

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