Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has blamed budgetary constraints and pupil data problems for the department’s failures.
Be brave in the face of intimidation by education officials, civil society told teachers, principals and governing body members at a Limpopo workshop.
The South African Democratic Teachers Union has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga seven days to act on the Limpopo textbooks report.
One of the task team’s recommendations is an investigation into basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan for his role in the delay.
The education authority must set up a remedial programme for pupils who did not get textbooks.
Thousands of Limpopo pupils are still without the textbooks they need and that is where the argument should stop, Section 27 says.
Teenagers in Cape Town who live in poverty and face a bleak future are turning to pangas, not sports fields, to prove themselves – and to keep score.
Eastern Cape schools have expressed outrage over allegedly "unlawful" meddling by the provincial education department in the procurement of textbooks.
Section 27 has filed papers at the North Gauteng High Court after it emerged that hundreds of Limpopo pupils are still without textbooks.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa walked out of a meeting with hundreds of angry Northern Cape protesters on Monday after it degenerated into chaos.