The Basic Education Department says their policies for textbook delivery don’t have a place in the court room.
Storm of opposition greets the government’s plan of ?‘one book per subject, per grade, per language’.
The basic education department will appeal a court ruling despite hundreds of pupils not having all their textbooks months into the school year.
The recent Limpopo textbook judgment could have been more helpful on the question of relief for the violation of rights.
Education activists have been advised to take their concerns on the delivery of textbooks to opposition parties, and not bother the courts.
Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?
According to government, Section27’s Limpopo textbook case is very close to being resolved and should not even have reached the high court.
In a controversial move Dickson Masemola, education minister for Limpopo, has been tipped to take over the province’s premiership.
Many grade 11 pupils don’t have all their books but teachers have been told not to talk about it.
First National Bank’s adverts calling for change in SA has been slammed by the ANC, with its youth league saying the campaign bordered on treason.
The state should only use public funds to put its view across if the media fails to do so, says Jacques du Preez.
The Limpopo saga has led many to lose sight of the larger curriculum picture.
Despite the the basic education department’s claim that all textbooks had been delivered to Limpopo schools, Section27 says this is not the case.
Increasing legal cases highlight the department of education’s failure to provide basic school infrastructure, Victoria John reports.
EduSolutions executive director Moosa Ntimba tells the M& G’s Victoria John and Bongani Nkosi why his company is not at fault for the textbook crisis.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says her department has done all it can to help learners through a "really dramatic year" ahead of exams.
Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has blamed budgetary constraints and pupil data problems for the department’s failures.
The South African Democratic Teachers Union has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga seven days to act on the Limpopo textbooks report.
Thousands of Limpopo pupils are still without the textbooks they need and that is where the argument should stop, Section 27 says.
Money crisis means grades lacking textbooks this year could start 2013 without books again.
The Democratic Alliance says the basic education department is not using standard procedures for the purchasing of 2013 textbooks for Limpopo.
Section27 says it’s considering more legal action against the basic education department because it did not obey a court order to deliver textbooks.
Revising our government structures might be an option, but the real problem lies with people.
Revising our government structures might be an option, but the real problem lies with people, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Firing the education minister will not rectify flawed procurement and intervention powers.
Reports have shown Limpopo is just one example of nationwide inadequacy and mismanagement in the procurement and delivery of schoolbooks.
Parliament’s portfolio committee on basic education is concerned about persistent delays in schoolbook deliveries across the country.
Members of Parliament have rejected the department of basic education’s academic catch-up plan for Limpopo pupils, saying it is inadequate.
The Democratic Alliance says Limpopo police need to investigate the basic education department after another load of textbooks were found dumped.
Amid the ongoing textbook debacle, Limpopo police have discovered more than 5 000 school books in good condition dumped in the veld in Majeje.
Presidential task team members believe Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga should be fired but President Jacob Zuma needs her women’s league.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is set to argue in court that children do not have an unqualified constitutional right to basic education.