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No class act in school of corruption

Wide-scale corruption has rocked Mpumalanga’s best-performing school, where a principal allegedly paid staff members about R1.2 million over and above their salaries and pocketed more than R232 000 for himself, among other dubious transactions.

An investigative report by the Mpumalanga department of education into Lowveld High School in Mbombela, which City Press has seen, also reveals that the school’s governing body was completely sidelined from the school’s financial affairs because the previous governing body wrongfully delegated financial powers

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