Report fingers provinces for failure to pay schools, tackle teacher shortages

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22 June 2025 - 00:00 By Gugulethu Mashinini

The Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (Fedsas) says it is concerned about what it calls long-standing failures by eight of the nine provincial education departments, including that they are not paying school allocations and addressing teacher shortages...

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