South Africa: Department of Education Under Fire for Shoddy Statistics

8 November 2017

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) came under fire from MPs on Tuesday for not providing accurate information on the number of learners needing transport.

Ramasedi Mafoko, head of planning at the DBE, presented a document to the portfolio committee on basic education showing that 541,728 learners countrywide had been identified as needing transport. Of these, 448,930 were provided with transport this year. In KwaZulu-Natal, where according to the document, 90,000 learners needed transport, 47,747 learners had been provided with it.

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