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 »

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 »

by Thanduxolo Jika EduSolutions – the company under scrutiny in the Limpopo textbook debacle – didn’t only score a massive textbook deal, but was also allegedly irregularly awarded a toys supply contract for schools in the province. Court papers and a key whistleblower claim EduSolutions – whose Limpopo textbook tender deal would have been worth… 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 »