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Johannesburg - Some provincial education departments have failed to
compensate schools which offer fee exemptions for poor pupils, the
Sunday Times reported.
One Eastern Cape school granted fee exemptions of more than R700,000, but received just R784 from the government.
Provinces are obliged to pay compensation to schools
for admitting pupils whose parents cannot afford school fees. This was
according to amended regulations which came into effect in April last
year. Qualifying schools were supposed to have been paid by November
2011, but the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo had not done so.
Meanwhile, the North West paid out only R148 840 to
nine schools, despite budgeting R1m for 248 schools. It said most
schools had missed the application deadline.
Mpumalanga's education department said it had not
received any applications. The Eastern Cape paid out R2.7m to 77
schools, an average of R35 000 per school. It said these were the only
schools that had applied for compensation.
According to the Sunday Times several schools had
applied, but were not paid out, or paid less than they had applied for.
As a result, schools across the country had written off millions in fee
exemptions.
The basic education department said compensation for schools depended on the availability of money.