Media24 Investigations EduSolutions confirmed yesterday that Dirk Coetzee had been employed by the company and that he had introduced company founder Shaun Battlemann to President Jacob Zuma in 2007 but denied any impropriety. “Mr Coetzee was the Group Risk Head and if he had uncovered any wrongdoing whatsoever he had all the opportunity in the… Read More »

Media24 Investigations Former police death squad commander and convicted murderer Dirk Coetzee has lifted the lid on the dodgy dealings of EduSolutions, the company contracted by the state to buy and deliver textbooks across South Africa. The company was thrust to the centre of the textbook storm in Limpopo when Anis Karodia, the former Limpopo… Read More »

The education department’s new textbook policy could destroy a quarter of South Africa’s publishing industry, or half of the country’s capacity to create textbooks and other materials, the Publishers’ Association of South Africa says. But , as Jeanne Van Der Merwe reports, the government is sticking to its war on prices, charging South Africa’s textbooks… Read More »