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The IFP says that while it welcomes the appointment of a national task
team to look into the Limpopo textbook saga, it was disappointed to
see the ANC Western Cape provincial leader, Mr Marius Fransman, trying
to score cheap political points over the saga.

"This is typical of this ANC-led government. Instead of owning up to
their failures, they will look for others to blame. The IFP is
dismayed by the actions of Mr Fransman, which speaks to a complete
lack of understanding on how serious the crisis within our education
system really is," said Alfred Mpontshane MP, the IFP's spokesperson
on eduction.

Mpontshane said that IFP believes that the national task team should
not only be tasked to look into the textbook saga, but should have a
wider term of reference, so as to look at the state of education in
South Africa as a whole.

"It is time that this government of ours stop denying, and own up to
the national education crisis our country is facing. We need the task
team to deliver a report not only focussing on the lack of textbooks,
but the rot in our education system, which the IFP believes goes much
deeper than just the failure to deliver books," concluded Mpontshane MP.