NGO impressed by textbook delivery

[LazyLion]

Civil society lobby group Section 27 is impressed with the state of text book deliveries in Limpopo for the 2014 academic year, it said on Monday.

"We commend the department of basic education and the Limpopo department of education on their improvement in textbook delivery for the 2014 academic year," Section 27 spokeswoman Nikki Stein said in a statement.

Stein said the organisation used a sample of 80 schools in the area, and that all schools had confirmed delivery of textbooks.

The school governing bodies in the sample told the organisation that the Limpopo education department would address shortages reported to them without delay.

She encouraged schools to continue reporting textbooks shortages in the province to both departments and the lobby group to ensure that shortages were addressed as soon as possible.


Source : Sapa /mr/ks/ar
Date : 20 Jan 2014 13:13

 

[GreyBush]

See now was that so hard...

 

[SinghDude]

Well done to the SA Post Office , for a change ?

 

[LazyLion]

Well done to the SA Post Office , for a change ?

How are they involved?

 

[SinghDude]

How are they involved?

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Limpopo-pupils-to-have-textbooks-in-2014-MEC-20131104

 

[Hemps]

Yip, congrats for doing your job. Finally.

 

[SinghDude]

Polokwane - Pupils in Limpopo will have textbooks in time for the 2014 academic year, Education MEC Dikeledi Magadzi said on Monday.

"We have to finalise 334 [schools] in Mopani. We have 100% in Vhembe and Capricorn, 99 [percent of schools] in Sekhukhune and before the end of this week would have finished Waterberg," Magadzi said during a tour of the department's textbook warehouse in Seshego, Polokwane.

The department assigned the SA Post Office (Sapo) to deliver textbooks to schools, a Sapa correspondent reported.

This followed delivery problems to schools in the province in 2012. Many schools received their textbooks towards the end of the year.

In 2012 both the Limpopo and national basic education departments were compelled by three different court orders to deliver textbooks to the province's schools.

Magadzi had no doubts the Sapo had performed as asked.

"I would say this is a better system... I think we don’t need to change... if is not broken," she said.

Sapo logistics manager Colleen Gray said the deliveries were going well.

Magadzi said the cost of buying textbooks was concerning government and delaying development. Some schools did not get textbooks back from pupils at the end of school year.

Principals were warned that if they failed to do so they could lose benefits.

Failure to retrieve textbooks meant government had to pay publishing companies to print them again.

She said textbooks destroyed in a fire at Jules High School near Malamulele would be replaced.

 

[yebocan]

good one, getting the academic year off, to good start

 

[LazyLion]

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Limpopo-pupils-to-have-textbooks-in-2014-MEC-20131104

Aaah, thanks!

I want them to deliver the textbooks urgently, but I don't mind if they sit on the e-toll bills forever.

 

[SinghDude]

Aaah, thanks!

I want them to deliver the textbooks urgently, but I don't mind if they sit on the e-toll bills forever.

lol

CWU have informed staff to "go slow" when it comes to sorting and redirecting bills for E-tolls.


Surprising SAPO has excellent infrastructure to facilitate the delivery of textbooks on a wide scale..... and great opportunity to make some money too.