Large quantities of personal protective equipment (PPE) have “disappeared” en route to KwaZulu-Natal schools.
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“The MEC for education in KwaZulu-Natal, Kwazi Mshengu, has received with shock the reports of the disappearance of large quantities of PPE in the Umlazi, Pinetown and Zululand districts. It is said that the equipment disappeared en route to circuit offices and schools,” the provincial education department said on Tuesday morning.The disappearance of the PPE makes the preparations for the reopening of schools an elusive goal, the department said.
On Monday morning Mshengu was at Insika High School, which had only received one, instead of two, masks per child.
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