Mayor calls for investigation into School Nutrition Tender

Zululand District Municipality Mayor Thulasizwe Buthelezi has written to the Office of the Public Protector to request a full investigation into the process and players involved in the KZN School Nutrition Tender.

“The ANC provincial government has failed the learners of KwaZulu-Natal. The gross mismanagement of the School Nutrition Programme is tantamount to stealing food from the mouths of thousands of learners who went without meals at school this week,” remarked Mayor Buthelezi.

“My office has been inundated with calls from helpless parents in Zululand and elsewhere, whose children are the victims of a greedy, corrupt and out-of-touch government. I have therefore written a formal request to the Office of the Public Protector to launch a full-scale investigation into the following aspects of the School Nutrition Tender: 1. How many service providers are involved, and the value of work awarded to each service provider; 2. The track record of the main supplier in executing projects of this magnitude; 3. The impact on teaching and learning that this crisis has caused.
“Zululand District Municipality is in constant dialogue with parents and emerging entrepreneurs on ways to intervene should the current situation not improve,” concluded Mayor Buthelezi.

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