Court to get education department to deliver textbook
Parents supported by activists are taking the Eastern Cape Department of Education to court for its failure to deliver books and stationery to over 3,000 schools in the province.In the court papers, Petros Majola from the Khula Development Project said:
The respondents include the Head of the Eastern Cape Department of Basic Education, the MEC for Education and the provincial government.Basic education department faces court action if it fails to deliver stationery and textbooks Ngqina, in an affidavit, said that she is unemployed and cannot afford to buy stationary for her children.My children have had to find old workbooks from previous years and tear out unused pages just so they can have something to write on.
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