Education

With reference to the Divine Heritage Christian Centre (DHCC):

(1) Whether allegations that the principal collected money from parents promising to run a music academy for the school and to buy uniform and textbooks but never having done so have been bought to her and her Department’s attention and have been investigated; if so, (a) what are the relevant details and (b) what was the money spent on;

(2) whether the difficulties of parents to afford the fees and the subsequent request to lower the monthly fees from R1 750 to R750 due to impact of COVID-19 pandemic have been bought to her attention; if so, (a) what measures are available in her Department to assist them and (b) what steps will be taken to assist the parents;

(3)(a) what is the quality of the curriculum taught at the school, (b) what is the effective-ness of the school’s online teaching and (c) how does the Department monitor these aspects?