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In view of the content of the link pasted above, some private-owned schools, especially Kuruman in the Northern Cape, have asked parents to pay full fees for April and May 2020 in this period of Lockdown due COVID 19, claiming it is ''compulsory'' as decreed by the minister of Education Angie Motshekga.

The services that are given in one of the Private-Owned school to school kids include;
(1) catering
(2) )tuition and
(3) transportation.

Catering and tuition cost each child per month in Grade RR (Reception) R1 300.00 (Thousand Three Hundred in Rand). Thus, in the first term only, a parent with a child in Grade RR pays R3 900.00 (Three Thousand Nine Hundred in Rand).

In April and May 2020, no catering has been provided to any of Grade RR kids. There has been non-performance of tuition to any kid.

Besides, there is no online tuition that the Private Schools provide whiles our children remain at home.Photo copies of 5 pages given out weekly to available parents have already been paid for at the beginning of the academic year. Parents (who are literate enough and can) buy learning materials fully engage their kids in home themselves. If proprietors of these profit-making Private Schools have any assistance, such as directing parents to online tutorial apps, to parents who have lost thier sources of meaningful livelihood due lockdown, they only do that because they have requested for full fee payments.

My questions are that;

(1) why has the minister Angie Motshekga made it ''compulsory for parents to make full fees payment to profit-making Private schools, who are not transparent as regard their pay structure for teacherts who are paid at whatever amount proprietors propose?

(2) Apart from meetings held with associations connected with these private schools, what measures regulate the collection of fees by Private Schools in this Lockdown period, when no tuition and catering are provided to our kids, especially those in Grade RR?

(3) Since proprietors are NOT willing to negotiate school fee payment, but using some corrupt SGB members to wrongly conclude that the minister says it is ''compusory'' for parents to pay full school fees, is it not appropriate to put these schools, especially those in Kuruman to account for the reason that school fee payment is ''compulsory''?

I will be very grateful, if the minister Angie Motshekga would respond to my humble questions so that we do not use COVID-19 as means to hurt ourselves, but to help ourselves.