Basic education minister Angie Motshekga’s plan to have principals and other members of school management teams (SMTs) back at school on Monday has suffered a serious setback.
In a statement, Hopley said that this meant that the PPE orders placed with the Imperial company will no longer be delivered.
This means that the procurement section have had to start from scratch, with the entire process of tenders which has effectively put them back by at least three weeks. A circuit manager in the Eastern Cape said the centralised procurement of PPEs by National Treasury was returned to the province to procure on their own.
“We can understand that it’s not necessarily of the making of the province because Treasury has redirected the order, but what it does is call into question the ability to open any of the education facilities in the Eastern Cape on the dates set by the minister.”
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