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A 30% school fee exemption was approved for the mother. The father remains liable for 100%.

One parent applies for exemption from payment of school fees and is granted 30%. The other parent never applies. Most schools then write off that 30% and move on. That write-off was never required, and over a debtor book it adds up to real money. How exemption actually works when parents are divorced or separated.

You can follow every process to a T, but you cannot put money in a parent's wallet.

A parent owes R42 000 in arrear school fees. Every reminder was sent, every step followed, the account handed to attorneys, and still not a cent has come in. Nothing about the process failed. So what now? An honest look at school debt, and whose job it really is to fix.

A walk through the ecosystem and what we found at the end.

We have worked with almost every moving part of the school debtor management ecosystem: courts, attorneys, accountants, software providers, SGBs, management, principals, parents, and debtor management teams. So we took a walk through it, and what we found at the end was worth writing about.

The whole system is upside down. And your next decision will either change that, or prove it.

School fee collections in South Africa does not have one problem. It has an entire ecosystem of problems, and every person in that ecosystem has a role in either solving them or deepening them.

South Africa's First Interschool Debtor Management Competition

Six months into South Africa's first interschool debtor management competition, and what we have seen should be on every school management's agenda.

She was ranked in the top ten in the country. She did not get a bonus.

She was ranked in the top ten in the country. She did not get a bonus. This is what we are doing to the people who keep our schools financially alive, and then we wonder why the numbers do not improve.

Why Jumping Fox Software Is the Best Debt Management Software for Schools

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Can financial profiling help determine if a parent can afford school fees?

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Personalised email template to encourage parents to pay outstanding school fees

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What You Need to Know for Successful School Fee Collections

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How Jumping Fox Software Ensures Legal Compliance in Debtor Management

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The Importance of Automated Debtor Management Software for Businesses

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