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.
The ANC’s national executive committee has acknowledged that the late delivery of textbooks in Limpopo has been a "serious failure" by government.
President Jacob Zuma is facing growing calls from within ANC structures to hold Angie Motshekga to account for the Limpopo textbook debacle.
If education really is SA’s top priority, it’s clear what needs to be done. We need a new education minister, writes Faranaaz Parker.
Limpopo teachers have voiced concern over the quality of textbooks as the price war between the basic education department and publishers rages on.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela says her office came late to the education debacle but she’s now investigating textbook problems in three provinces.
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 claims to the contrary, the ghost of former prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd lives on in South African society, says Nickolaus Bauer.
President Zuma has deflected criticism of how the Limpopo textbook crisis was handled, denying that politics had been put above the welfare of pupils.
Despite Motshekga claiming the media have overplayed the textbook scandal, a report shows 70% of Grade 10 pupils in 25 Limpopo schools failed exams.
A school in rural Limpopo is still waiting for textbooks seven months into the school year.
While claiming to welcome the Metcalfe report on deliveries, it has criticised its pertinent points.
Limpopo’s education minister Dickson Masemola says it is "unfair" that he is being blamed for the Limpopo textbook saga.
The Limpopo textbook scandal is an indication that government has failed its people, according to Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi.
The team appointed to verify Limpopo textbook deliveries has failed to determine how many learners began school with textbooks on Monday.
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.
The debacle is but a symptom of a mismanaged department and a lack of focus on quality content
Team appointed to verify Limpopo textbook deliveries will have to go back to schools after holidays, observer says.
But amid doubts about the logic of a junior employee taking the flak, schools still lack books.
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.
Apartheid will not end and black people will not have real freedom until free and high quality education becomes a reality, says Zwelinzima Vavi.
The Limpopo education department has started with the process of ordering textbooks for the 2013 academic year, says administrator Mzwandile Mathews.
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.
School workbooks now introduce another steaming pile of tender-related questions in this debacle, writes David Macfarlane.
As the Limpopo textbooks crisis deepens, the loudest government noises this week thundered from stable doors being heavily slammed shut …