The Limpopo Department of Education (LDE) reported that it spent 39.8 per cent of its revised allocation of R14.39 million for the Dinaledi Schools Grant in the 2012/13 financial year. On 17 April 2013, a letter was received from the Department of Basic Education (DBE) informing the Administrator that the DBE intended to withhold the transfer of the last tranches of the Grant. The Administrator prepared a detailed response, and sent it to the Director-General of the DBE on 23 April 2013, requesting it to release all withheld funds, as an amount of R8.5 million had already been committed by the end of the financial year. Parallel to that, a formal roll-over request was submitted to the Limpopo Provincial Treasury. An amount of R140 252 had not been committed by the end of the 2012/13 financial year. The LDE reported that the following challenges resulted in the delayed procurement processes: . A tender for science laboratory equipment and chemicals had been published, but the quoted prices were, in the LDE's opinion, ridiculous; . The capacitation of principals and teachers had to be scaled down because of the work-to-rule declared by the South African Democratic Teachers Union; . SITA partners did not agree to lease arrangements for the number of computers required, necessitating that notebooks be purchased; and . Internal human resource capacity for the programme itself is a constraint.