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The delivery of textbooks to schools in Limpopo is progressing well. Limpopo Education MEC Thembisile Nwedamutswu visited warehouses last week to monitor progress and she was satisfied with the work currently going on.

The deliveries are currently being made on the basis of information given to the province by schools. The deliveries are being done against orders (provided via CD and hardcopy) that have been signed off by the school principal, circuit and district managers.

The verification will be conducted when schools open as migration affects learner enrolment in schools and this could lead to additional deliveries.

The deliveries are being done by the Post Office who have committed since increased capacity to ensure that the work is completed before end of the year.

The department spends huge amounts of the budget on text books every year in a bid to ensure that every child has a text book for every subject in every grade.

However, low retention and retrieval of these valuable resources has militated against this goal at the commencement of the school calendar year.

The budget provided is used to provide top-ups for damages, non-return and shortages as a result of the migration of learners.

The Department will continue to ensure that every learner in every school has a textbook. It is, however, critical to ensure that schools check and report shortages promptly to the department so as to enable the swift delivery of top up textbooks.

Issued by Department of Education