Mail & Guardian NEWS OPINION BUSINESS ARTS & CULTURE EDUCATION SCI-TECH MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL REPORTS IN THE PAPER ZAPIRO PARTNERS EDUCATION TEACHER DIGITAL Education More Limpopo textbook woes for 2015? 19 DEC 2014 00:00 BONGANI NKOSI The basic education department has denied another gaffe in the Limpopo textbooks debacle, after it reportedly missed out on discounts for 2015 books. Some Limpopo learners did not receive textbooks before sitting in for their exams, now it appears the department has missed out on discounts for the 2015 books. (Supplied) Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s rescue team in Limpopo allegedly forgot that its deal with textbook publishers, entailing huge discounts since 2012, was due to end this year, publishers told the Mail & Guardian this week. So it did not budget for the full price of the books. But department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga denied this, saying the Limpopo department “benefited enormously from the reduced textbook prices offered by publishers ... We ... deny that there was failure by government, and more particularly the Limpopo department, to take advantage of the discounts”. City Press reported last weekend that the department had bought only half of the 4.3-million textbooks needed for next year. But Mhlanga said only 965 500 more were needed. Those had been ordered and would be delivered to schools in their first week next year.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:46:46 +0000
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