Food crisis hits public schools hard
Thursday, January 12, 2017
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Schools reopened across the country on Tuesday FILE PIC
Though a perennial problem, the situation appeared grimmer in the Kgalagadi area where multitudes of boarding students who arrived a day before the school calendar commenced on Tuesday, went to bed on empty stomachs.
Authorities around the country said the problems were largely due to poor and delayed procurement as well as funding problems within the public school sector.
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