The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) is ready to implement on a full scale but due to fears of Covid-19, parents are not allowing pupils to collect the meals.
Long distances from schools also prevent pupils from coming to school to collect the meals and this affects the number of pupils benefiting from the programme.
The court also ordered that the minister and eight education MECs, excluding the Western Cape, to file reports showing what they have done to ensure that children benefit under the scheme. In his report to the court and to Equal Education and two schools which brought the application — dated August 7 — Mweli said provinces were required to submit statistics on pupils who are receiving meals from July 20.
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