BANA PELE: ECD subsidy expands as government races to close SA’s one-million-child gap
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South Africa has expanded access to the early childhood development subsidy to over 954,000 children, but Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube stressed that a large access gap for early learning programmes remained. At the 2026 Bana P…
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