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SA school nutrition programme has resumed: Motshekga

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Basic education minister Angie Motshekga says the school nutrition programme has resumed for grade 12 and 7 pupils in all provinces.

“Now we have even expanded feeding to learners who are not yet back in schools. Plans are in place to provide feeding to learners not yet in school using different options, including staggered feeding at school, cooked food collected at school, food parcels collected at school, parcels collected at collection point other than school,” Motshekga said during a briefing on Sunday.

Equal Education approached the Pretoria high court asking for a declaratory order that government had a duty to ensure that meals were provided to all pupils who qualified to benefit from the national school nutrition programme. Arguing on behalf of Equal Education on Friday, Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi said there was chaos in provinces as they did not know when the department would reinstate the school nutrition programme.

 

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