JEANNE VAN DER MERWE and THANDUXOLO JIKA THE State is flip-flopping over the release of the raw matric subject marks for the 2012 examinations. Umalusi, which is responsible for standardising the matric results prior to release, has provided unadjusted examination scores to Media24 Investigations for the past two years. But now it says this was… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE THE CEO of one of South Africa’s biggest textbook companies and key ministerial advisor on the new school curriculum has penned more than 50 textbooks approved for use in the new school curriculum. Fathima Dada, the local CEO of publishing multinational Pearson, is a co-author on several readers, workbooks and teacher’s… Read More »

We are trying to establish how many of South Africa’s elected political leaders educate their children at state or at private schools. Almost all Cabinet ministers, deputy ministers, MPs and education MECs’ either refuse to disclose this information or simply ignore our request to be told. You can help establish the truth. Use our online… Read More »

ATHANDIWE SABA, JACQUES PAUW and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE Get lost! That’s the overwhelming response from South Africa’s top elected leaders when asked if their children go to state or private schools. Media24 Investigations sent questions to the President, Deputy President, 34 national Cabinet ministers, 33 deputy ministers, nine education MECs and 400 Members of… Read More »

JACQUES PAUW The Hawks and the State Security Agency have launched a wide-ranging probe into EduSolutions, the controversial company supplying textbooks to at least four provincial education departments. Two independent sources have confirmed to City Press that the Hawks investigation centres on how EduSolutions obtained their textbook contract in Limpopo. Investigators are also looking into… Read More »

by Thanduxolo Jika and Jeanne van der Merwe THE company at the heart of the countrywide textbook tender controversy also scored a “blank cheque” contract to do business with the ANC in Parliament. The man who signed off on the deal was former Chief Whip Mbulelo Goniwe who lost his job and was suspended from… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE EIGHT MONTHS after clinching a three-year textbook-and-stationery supply contract in Mpumalanga, controversial school supplies company EduSolutions convinced the government to pay it millions more than the contract allowed for. Leaked documents detailing the company’s bid to supply Mpumalanga’s 1 868 government schools – apparently worth R120m – include a request from… Read More »