Recent Gauteng Health Department policy change mandates Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme registration for nutrition support, alarming practitioners and advocates, prompting calls for reversal.
The residents have further raised concern over the mayor’s integrity after he was found to have allegedly unlawfully hired municipal manager Thandekile Mnyimba who reportedly did not have even a matric certificate.
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The recently launched Thrive by Five Index shows that 65% of children aged four to five attending early learning programmes in South Africa are not meeting the expected standards for early learning, physical growth or both.