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SGBs must oversee nutrition programmes: Sadtu

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The South African Democratic Teachers Union in KwaZulu-Natal says school governing bodies should be managing nutrition programmes.

The union’s comment comes after the provincial Tender Tribunal ordered the Education Department to re-start the tender process for the schools’ nutrition programme due to alleged corruption.

Sadtu provincial secretary Nomarashiya Caluza says, “It disappointing that all the time the department must be in and out of the legal processes regarding the school national nutrition programme which is an intervention that is supposed to be taken seriously. Our view is that the whole programme of the school nutrition must be taken back to the school governing body because they have capacity to handle such programmes and remove all these processes of tendering, it can assist a lot.”

Meanwhile, National Teachers’ Union deputy president Allan Thompson says the department must make sure that learners get proper meals everyday.

“We are not interested on the rulings of the court and all sorts of things but what we want to see, we want to see the learners benefiting from the school nutrition programme because over a billion of Rand’s of the tax payers money is directed to these kinds of programme only to find that learners are not getting food and the department  is pretending as if they’re seeing that schools are having problems, but we are happy that the law has decided to intervene because most of the children that are affected are the most vulnerable children, those that depend on the school nutrition programme to survive.”

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