Limpopo Education Department: R1.2 billion in the red

Mbasa Gqokoma
19 December 2014

The Limpopo Education Department is under investigation following the department being almost R1.2 billion in the red.

A forensic investigation revealed that some senior officials in the provincial department were allegedly responsible for gross mismanagement and the process is still on-going.

However the National Department of Basic Education says it is more than ready to deliver textbooks in all schools in Limpopo on time for the 2015 academic year.

The department has been put under administration by the parliamentary cabinet due to the textbook saga in 2012. 

Departmental Spokesperson Elijah Mahlangu says there has been a collapse of systems in the province such that the department did not know the number of schools and learners in the province to an extent that the National Treasure contracted Stats SA to go and do a head count to establish the numbers, so planning could happen in an organised manner.

Mahlangu confirms that such was done and as a result, they were able to make deliveries of the different things that were needed in the province.

He also added that, the intervention has worked; in fact, the Department of Education in that Province is in a better position now than it was in 2011.

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