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Special Report: Curriculum crisis; Attention is on Limpopo’s textbook debacle following the dumping of textbooks and workbooks in the province.

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Textbooks crisis: Price talks stall 2013 deliveries

A confidential report warns that the October deadline for 2013 material is unlikely to be met - leaving students in the lurch once again.
Bongani Nkosi
Motshekga under fire for textbook crisis

Six civil society organisations are "deeply concerned" by the failure to deliver textbooks, despite a court order to do so.
Sapa
Battles over books causing 'so many delays'

Eastern Cape schools have expressed outrage over allegedly "unlawful" meddling by the provincial education department in the procurement of textbooks.
Victoria John
Mandela biography among destroyed textbooks

A biography of Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare plays and Aids education manuals were among the textbooks destroyed by the Limpopo education department.
Sapa

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Ramaphosa: Education needs serious money from business: ANC deputy president and tycoon Cyril Ramaphosa says big businesses must dig deep into their coffers to help the government improve public education.
Education gets the bigger budget bite - with a reprimand: Last year's landmark legal case after the basic education department's failure to address appalling school infrastructure made its mark on the budget.
Section27 threatens more court action over Limpopo schools: Section27 has threatened to go back to court if shocking school infrastructure problems in hundreds of Limpopo schools are not urgently addressed.
Education department denies Limpopo still needs textbooks: The department of basic education has came out guns blazing refuting claims by the DA that there are still schools in Limpopo without textbooks.
ANC's push for teaching as an essential service augurs conflict: The ANC's aggressive stance on teaching as an essential service bodes ill for three-year wage agreements reached in the public sector last year.
Matrics given boost before big university leap: The SA Education and Environment Project's bridging year programme has given a few matrics the chance to succeed in their first year of varsity.
Worth a mention: Fake Motshekga Twitter account emerges: The legacy of three court orders, a media furore, and pupils who went without textbooks last year appears to be holding strong - on Twitter.
Prisoners achieve 79.25% matric pass rate: The Correctional Services department has reported a total of 79.25% of prisoners who wrote national senior certificate examinations passed in 2012.
Improved matric results hide reality: Matric results for 2012 are looking up but they have not told us enough about the deep social inequalities experienced by pupils across the country.
Western Cape: Errors won't affect matric exam results: The Western Cape says matriculants will receive their results on time even though the department of basic education misreported the aggregate numbers.