Firing Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga or the provincial department’s minister will not result in meaningful change, writes Rapule Tabane.
Pressure has continued to mount on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga as the ANC Youth League formally called for her resignation.
We all know what the children need. They need Margaret Thatcher.
Acclaimed writer Nadine Gordimer has poured scorn on SA’s education system as "a wreck" over the failure to deliver textbooks to Limpopo schools.
President Jacob Zuma is facing growing calls from within ANC structures to hold Angie Motshekga to account for the Limpopo textbook debacle.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe says the national executive committee will study a report on the Limpopo textbook saga at its lekgotla this week.
Despite Motshekga claiming the media have overplayed the textbook scandal, a report shows 70% of Grade 10 pupils in 25 Limpopo schools failed exams.
The basic education department and Section27 are waiting on the release of a report into the Limpopo textbook debacle that has been raging for months.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has taken flak for her self-assessment of a near perfect score of her performance in her portfolio.
New data expose the staggering inequities in state schooling, putting Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s own performance squarely on the line.
The Democratic Alliance has uncovered yet another dumping site for school textbooks that were meant for Limpopo students – seven months ago.
Attempts to link EduSolutions to President Jacob Zuma’s RDP Education Trust, are baseless and unfortunate, the presidency says.
The presidency has waded into the Limpopo textbook saga, with President Zuma establishing a ministerial task team to probe the education debacle.
The culprits who dumped Limpopo school workbooks near a Limpopo dam were still unknown by the end of the week and the saga had only deepened.
Former education administrator Anis Karodia claims he received a redeployment letter and was not fired from the Limpopo department of basic education.
The department says the delivery of textbooks to Limpopo schools, which have been without them for seven months, will be independently verified.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has denied lying about firing former Limpopo education administrator Anis Karodia.
The education ministry was informed EduSolutions’s contract was in breach of various regulations before using it as a supplier for school textbooks.
When Angie said she’d send textbooks to Limpopo, we said ‘Baie dankie’, not… ag, just watch the new Pimples video and tell us if we’re flogging a dead horse.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s recovery plan for Limpopo schools left without textbooks is a disgrace, says the Democratic Alliance.
Six civil society organisations are "deeply concerned" by the failure to deliver textbooks, despite a court order to do so.
The DA and Cope have said they want Angie Motshekga to answer to allegations that textbooks are being dumped and destroyed in Limpopo.
Litigation distracts the basic education department, it argues — but NGOs say dire school conditions force them to approach the courts.
Despite assurances that the education department would meet a high court ordered deadline, some Limpopo schools are still without textbooks.
Angie Motshekga will oppose court action taken by Eastern Cape governing bodies over the failure to fill 64 752 teaching posts budgeted for this year.
The department of basic education faces court action over its failure to fully fill the tens of thousands of teaching posts the Eastern Cape needs.
Litigation is increasingly being used to force the government to provide the basics needed in schools, writes Victoria John
The ANC Women’s League says women of all races and politics should set aside their differences and fight patriarchy.
Anis Karodia, head of the national intervention team in the Limpopo education department, has been fired after only three months, Beeld reported.
Children are unlikely to excel in schools that
are falling to pieces.
Eastern Cape’s education department superintendent general Modidima Mannya’s exit has paved the way for Angie Motshekga to stamp her authority.
The basic education department will challenge Equal Education in court over demands for minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.