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Free State education freezes textbook budgets, defends move
Filed: May 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM ET
Summary: Free State Education defends a freeze on school textbook budgets, citing governance failures, as unions criticize it.
WHO: Free State Department of Education
WHAT: Defended a centralised takeover and freeze of school textbook budgets, citing administrative failures and unlawful photocopying by school administrators
WHEN: May 21, 2026 at 6:05 PM ET
WHERE: Free State, South Africa
WHY: The freeze was imposed days before a statutory deadline amid claims of chronic administrative failures and unlawful photocopying by school administrators
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