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 »

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 »

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 »