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A much-vaunted scientific index measuring transformation has come in for a severe drubbing.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s eloquence on the credibility of the 78.2% matric pass rate for 2013 lay more in what she did not say.
The issue of payments to matric markers, which has been at the centre of a Labour Court dispute has raised the same questions as the textbook debacle.
David Macfarlane wonders where the political accountability in basic education is.
But the Constitutional Court is divided on how the government intervened to protect these rights.
Does Angie Motshekga sincerely intend to ever publish the school norms and standards?
The problems with textbooks are as much about quality as quantity and go back to the rushed curriculum, writes David Macfarlane.
