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SA Publishers Worry About Government Plan to Centralise School Textbook Procurement
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga plans to centralise school textbook procurement from next year in an effort to curb costs and corruption, despite concerns from South Africa’s publishing industry. Education recieves the biggest slice of South Africa’s budget with the government spending R6 billion on educating the country’s 12 million learners.
Local publishers however have some concerns over the minister’s move. The Publishers Association of South Africa (Pasa) is worried that South Africa’s small, but “very vibrant” textbook industry will feel the pinch if Ms Motshekga’s plans to force schools to choose textbooks from a catalogue drawn up by the national department succeed.
The Presidency gave Ms Motshekga’s department an extra R524m to ensure textbooks got to children in public schools early this year.
But, in the latest in a litany of poor logistics, Ms Motshekga last month discovered that seven of SA’s poorest-performing high schools, in the Bushbuckridge area of Mpumalanga, the province that fared worst in last year’s matric exams, still did not have textbooks at the end of last month.
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