Paarl Media has undertaken to provide learners and teachers with workbooks, and punctually so.

Despite reports of ongoing shortages, the companies involved in printing and distributing school workbooks have been praised by the government.

Government schools spend thousands photocopying test papers meant to be supplied by the department of education.

The number of people who died in a fire at a Paarl printing factory has risen to nine, the Paarl Media Group said on Saturday.

Lynley Donnelly talks to Mandla Sibeko, owner of the second Pick n Pay store in Soweto.