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Parents of pupils at Northpine Technical High School are furious after they were informed they would have to fork out R1000 to rent textbooks for the year.

 

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I thought it was normal to pay a fee to rent textbooks in schools, the teachers would publically shame those whose parents hadn't paid and you wouldn't get textbooks until they did pay the fee. Awful, but nothing new.

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