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Some schools in KwaZulu-Natal have threatened not to cook if they don't receive their full food stock for June as the R2.1bn provincial school nutrition programme continues to face challenges.

This was revealed in a departmental internal memo, dated June 3, signed by the head of the provincial department of education, Nkosinathi Ngcobo.

In the letter Ngcobo said the department was alerted that some schools are threatening to cook only when they receive food items for June, even when there is surplus stock from May. Ngcobo said while schools are within the approved policy in their request for a full complement of June food items, the situation is such that some service providers are in the process of securing funding from Ithala Bank and other institutions.

He said pupils must not be sent home simply because the suppliers have not delivered the full quota for the month of June.

 

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