(a) No, National Treasury determines and allocates budgets to the Provincial Treasuries. Provincial Treasuries then allocate budgets to the provincial departments
(b) Neither the Minister nor the Director-General have legislative authority to request Provincial Education Departments to deviate from policy prescripts. The Provincial Education Departments have already transferred the funds to schools in May 2020, in line with national norms and standards policy prescript.
(c) In terms of the current regulations, the Department can only maintain the allocated post establishment of a school as equitably allocated in terms of the official post establishment. The School Governing Body (SGB) is responsible for maintaining the additional educators appointed. The Department will, however, monitor the situation as it develops and if needed, Provincial Education Department can deal with the matter in terms of the fee exemption policy.