South Africa: Textbook Crisis - Culprit Officials Must Be Brought to Account

press release

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has belatedly called for the arrest of service providers who allegedly dumped and burned textbooks meant for Limpopo learners.

But the Minister has overlooked the fact that contractors who were burning and shredding textbooks claimed that they were doing so at the instruction of education department officials.

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