Budget cuts delay payment for Gauteng Education Nutrition Programme [SOUND]

# The Gauteng Education Department says rising demand and budget cuts have strained funding, causing delayed payments to service providers in its Extended National School Nutrition Programme. The Department’s spokesperson Steve Mabona says the provincial extension supports vulnerable learners in fee-paying schools. He emphasised that meals remain uninterrupted, engagements with providers are ongoing, and a national review of the school quintile system is underway: