School feeding scheme material sold

SHARPEVILLE. – Items such as milk, instant porridge, beans, mince, stamp and rice meant for a feeding scheme for destitute children are apparently being sold by kitchen staff at the Lekoa Shandu Secondary School in Sharpeville.
Whistle blowers, who have said that they are concerned community members, recently told Sedibeng Ster that employees at the school, who work on the feeding scheme, ‘take orders’ from people outside the school premises who tell them what they will need. The items are then sneaked out and stored at a nearby house from where they are collected by those who placed ‘orders’ after payment is made. South Africa’school feeding scheme – or as it is officially called the National School Nutrition Programme aims to foster better quality education by enhancing children’s active learning capacity, alleviating short-term hunger; providing an incentive for children to attend school regularly and punctually.Community members said that some of the items are so countless and heavy that those that collect them have to make use of private transport such as bakkies. Community members said that a taxi was recently seen loading ten bags of the soup, bags of brown beans, bags of maize meal and stamp from the house where the stolen materials are stored.
At the time of going to print Sedibeng Ster had sent an inquiry to Sedibeng East, Department of Education, Acting District Director, Phello Metsing about the allegations but had not received a response.