All nine provincial education ministers were hauled before the South African Human Rights Commission to answer questions about learning material.
The Democratic Alliance has refused to retract claims that some Limpopo schools are still missing textbooks.
The department of basic education has came out guns blazing refuting claims by the DA that there are still schools in Limpopo without textbooks.
The DA has challenged the education department to stick to its promise and deliver textbooks to Limpopo schools that faced shortages within 24-hours.
Public protector Thuli Madonsela hasn’t mastered the foosball of political corruption as she squares off against President Jacob Zuma.
At least 98% of textbooks have been delivered to inland schools ahead of the first day of school on Wednesday, the basic education department said.
The state should only use public funds to put its view across if the media fails to do so, says Jacques du Preez.
The department of basic education has said that it has delivered all outstanding learning and teaching support materials to schools in Limpopo.
The Pimples kids react with disbelief to news of Jacob Zuma’s new role on a UN education panel while his own education department is crushed by broken promises.
The Gauteng Democratic Alliance says textbooks and teaching materials used for an adult education course have been found discarded in Modderfontein.
If publishers don’t reduce textbook prices the provincial education department will withdraw its orders – two months before books are due in schools.
A confidential report warns that the October deadline for 2013 material is unlikely to be met – leaving students in the lurch once again.
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The tide has begun to turn against Zuma with the textbook saga, Nkandla and Lonmin all stacking up against him.
Jacob Zuma’s popularity wanes in Gauteng, while the Limpopo textbook debacle may become a ugly blemish on the president’s record.
The parlous state of the South African state education system has seen a boost in enrolment at private schools.
Former education administrator Anis Karodia claims he received a redeployment letter and was not fired from the Limpopo department of basic education.
Textbook delivery delays in Limpopo were a "barbaric act", says the Congress of South African Students.
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.
There are ways in which teachers can compensate for government’s incompetence.
Lawyer for Section 27, Nikki Stein, has emerged as a driving force in publicising the textbooks debacle.
Limpopo matrics describe the hardship of learning under poor teachers and without books.
The problems with textbooks are as much about quality as quantity and go back to the rushed curriculum, writes David Macfarlane.
Some Limpopo schools are still operating without textbooks this week after the education department missed yet another deadline.
The education ministry was informed EduSolutions’s contract was in breach of various regulations before using it as a supplier for school textbooks.
The education department has failed to meet its second textbook delivery deadline to Limpopo schools by 1%, a department official says.
Contradictory reports are filtering in about the rapidly developing status of the delivery of textbooks to Limpopo schools.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s recovery plan for Limpopo schools left without textbooks is a disgrace, says the Democratic Alliance.
A biography of Nelson Mandela, Shakespeare plays and Aids education manuals were among the textbooks destroyed by the Limpopo education department.
The relationship between Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and textbook delivery company EduSolutions must be investigated, the DA has said.
Six civil society organisations are "deeply concerned" by the failure to deliver textbooks, despite a court order to do so.