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

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This week, it emerged that the department spent the money from June last year, when schools reopened, until December.

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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431 million / 6 months / 2606 schools / 20 days per month = R 1378 per school per day so it’s actually possible

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But they can't pay the komape family whose child fell in a pit toilet in the school yard a mere ten million.they dismally failed to deliver the textbooks on time.what is it that they can do... somebody balance me here..

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