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Don’t hold us accountable to our policies: department

The Basic Education Department says their policies for textbook delivery don’t have a place in the court room.

Single textbook option slammed

Storm of opposition greets the government’s plan of ?‘one book per subject, per grade, per language’.

Motshekga to challenge textbook ruling

The basic education department will appeal a court ruling despite hundreds of pupils not having all their textbooks months into the school year.

A textbook case for stronger action

The recent Limpopo textbook judgment could have been more helpful on the question of relief for the violation of rights.

Judge says textbooks a political issue

Education activists have been advised to take their concerns on the delivery of textbooks to opposition parties, and not bother the courts.

Graphic: John McCann

The state must do textbooks by the book

Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?

Limpopo textbook case should not have reached court, says govt

According to government, Section27’s Limpopo textbook case is very close to being resolved and should not even have reached the high court.

Limpopo Education Minister Dickson Masemola.

Masemola’s leadership was a textbook failure

In a controversial move Dickson Masemola, education minister for Limpopo, has been tipped to take over the province’s premiership.

Transport head Lusanda Madikizela faces suspension for maladministration.

Rural Limpopo sold short on books

Many grade 11 pupils don’t have all their books but teachers have been told not to talk about it.

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ANC tears into FNB over ‘political statement’

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.

Lies, damned lies and advertising

The state should only use public funds to put its view across if the media fails to do so, says Jacques du Preez.

Pupils need proper resources for a good education.

All textbooks deserve attention

The Limpopo saga has led many to lose sight of the larger curriculum picture.

Section 27’s directorm Mark Heywood

NGO claims some schools still without textbooks

Despite the the basic education department’s claim that all textbooks had been delivered to Limpopo schools, Section27 says this is not the case.

School children.(Shelley Christians)

Education in crisis: Teaching floored by lack of chairs

Increasing legal cases highlight the department of education’s failure to provide basic school infrastructure, Victoria John reports.

EduSolutions’s Moosa Ntimba blames the department for the textbook scandal.

EduSolutions boss: We gave Limpopo what it wanted

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 spoke on worrying grade nine maths results.

Motshekga: We’ve done all we can to help pupils

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.

Textbooks: Soobrayan is ‘happy to be investigated’

Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has blamed budgetary constraints and pupil data problems for the department’s failures.

The union said the resolution to close schools was taken during a special meeting of its national executive committee, which sat on Tuesday, to discuss the spike of the virus.

Sadtu demands action on Limpopo textbooks report

The South African Democratic Teachers Union has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga seven days to act on the Limpopo textbooks report.

Thousand Limpopo pupils are still without textbooks.

Basic education’s blame game irrelevant, say lawyers

Thousands of Limpopo pupils are still without the textbooks they need and that is where the argument should stop, Section 27 says.

The education department ‘did not respond to Section27’s questions about funding for textbooks in 2013’.

Limpopo pupils face more of the same

Money crisis means grades lacking textbooks this year could start 2013 without books again.