Angie Motshekga Apologises To Parent

Angie Motshekga Apologises To Parents

It’s been six months into the school year, pupils are already writing their June exams but they are still pupils without textbooks. The department was ordered by the court to deliver textbooks in Limpopo, but didn’t meet the demands.
After learning that the textbooks for Grade 10 pupils in Limpopo were not delivered Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga expressed her shock on Wednesday.
“The situation is completely unacceptable. I have demanded a full report about reasons for this delay so that appropriate steps can be taken,” Motshekga said in a statement.
She apologised to Limpopo parents and pupils, for the situation and made assurances that a recovery plan had been developed so pupils could make up for lost time. The national department took over the running of Limpopo’s education department in December, following maladministration.
Motshekga’s office was informed that textbook delivery had been completed, but discovered delivery had in fact not taken place. Congress of the People acting provincial chairperson Patrick Sikhutshi said the department is in contempt of the court order and both Minister Motshekga and MEC Dickson Masemola have some explaining to do. Reported in News24 “Minister Angie Motshekga is in contempt of court for missing the deadline for these books to be delivered,” Democratic Alliance Limpopo spokesperson Langa Bodlani said in a statement.

“It is unthinkable that not even a court order can get the department to put textbooks in the hands of schoolchildren more than six months into the school year,” said Bodlani.