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The Western Cape Education Department will have to scrap plans to build 21 new schools this year.
With funding cuts from the national government, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) said it would have to scrap plans to build 21 new schools this year.
With a roughly R716 million funding shortage, pupils in the Western Cape will have to go without eight new and replacement schools.
To address this demand for pupil placement, in March the Western Cape Government passed a R2.9 billion infrastructure plan to build 21 new schools and 289 additional classrooms.
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