Cape Town – Escalating electricity costs, property prices and salaries are driving up the costs of schooling, putting the squeeze on the budgets of parents.

The increases are affecting public as well as independent schools, neither immune to the effects of rapidly rising costs.

Paul Colditz, chief executive of the Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (Fedsas), said that, on average, fees would have increased by about 10 percent a year since 2013.

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