On 20 July 2013, Premier Helen Zille wrote a well-publicised defence of Minister Angie Motshekga in which she sought to absolve Motshekga of arguably her three greatest failures of leadership: the 2012 Limpopo textbook crisis, the continued decline of schooling in the Eastern Cape and Motshekga’s years of delay in finalizing Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure. Equal Education responded to Zille in a press statement focused specifically on her misleading and erroneous statements on Norms and Standards, as well as in an op-ed by EE Deputy General Secretary Doron Isaacs, which addressed the broader issues. Premier Zille has now responded to the Equal Education press statement on Norms and Standards, with her own statement on Norms and Standards in which she criticises the EE statement as being “misleading and riddled with errors.”

Download EE's response to Zille's latest statement above.