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 »

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 »

by Thanduxolo Jika and jeanne van der Merwe Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s lies have snowballed in the face of evidence that she knew details more than a year ago of a controversial textbook tender which is now at the centre of Limpopo’s education crisis. And not only did the Education Minister know, but so… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA EduSolutions – the company at the heart of the Limpopo text book controversy – had a contract valued at between R500m and R700m in Limpopo over this year and next, court papers reveal. The company hit the headlines this weekend with claims by Anis Karodia, the education department administrator appointed by the national… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE It cost the South African taxpayer R442,900 in 2011 to produce a single matriculant. That’s the outcome of a City Press study conducted with the help of prominent labour economist, Adcorp’s Loane Sharp. Sharp crunched 12 years of education budget and enrolment data to help us answer a simple question: what… Read More »