The head of the Spar Group has offered assistance to the KwaZulu-Natal education department after the main contractor in the National School Nutrition Programme pulled out of its contract on Wednesday. | kaveels
The chairperson and interim CEO of the Spar Group, Mike Bosman, says they are willing to help the Department of Education with the National School Nutrition Programme debacle.Bosman says Spar understood the dire situation the department found itself in and will attempt to assist.
KZN Education MEC Mbali Frazer confirmed on Wednesday the main service provider, Pancia Retail, had pulled out of the contract with the department after failing to adequately implement the programme for the second term.The old method will see local service providers located near schools providing meals.
The support was, however, conditional and limited to just one area and would only begin on 1 June 2023. "We said we can help him with a limited geography, with the pilot project set to run from June this year. The meals are meant for some of the poorest pupils in low-fee schools where many come from families who live below the poverty line.
"This is not something we can be thinking about in a month's time, it's something that needs assistance at the soonest."
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