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    Principals fear they cannot sustain their schools

    Feb 03, 2021 4 minutes
    NADIA KHAN nadia.khan@inl.co.za

    SOUTH Africa faces a crisis in education with a growing number of cash-strapped parents unable to pay school fees. Without the money, those schools that don’t get sizeable government funding will not be able to operate efficiently.

    When the country went into a hard lockdown in March last year, some parents took cuts to their salaries while others lost their jobs. The result was more parents could not afford school fees.

    The TPN Credit Bureau recently conducted a survey which showed the biggest challenge schools faced was unpaid fees. The survey found school fees amounted to 60% of a public school’s income and 90% for a private school.

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