Eastern Cape Workbooks - seSotho books for isiXhosa learners
A Democratic Alliance (DA) inspection of an Education Department warehouse in the Port Elizabeth (PE) district has discovered thousands of textbooks that are being returned by schools.
This is due to the Education Department's botching of orders for workbooks for Eastern Cape children for the 3rd and 4th quarter of the year, starting on 16 July.
The DA witnessed hundreds of boxes of books being returned to the warehouse because schools had received the wrong language for their learners.
In many cases (see link), isiXhosa learners had been ordered seSotho workbooks by the Department. Afrikaans and English speaking learners had received isiXhosa workbooks.
A lack of consultation from the national Department's side and a chaotic workbook delivery process by the provincial Department has led to hundreds of schools in the PE district alone being left without any literacy and numeracy workbooks for children in Grades R - 7.