Gauteng iPad scheme risks being another Limpopo textbook disaster

27 July 2015 - 15:55

By RDM News Wire

EduSolutions‚ the company responsible for the 2012 Limpopo textbook crisis‚ and reported to have close ties to President Jacob Zuma‚ has been awarded a contract to deliver tablets‚ laptops and e-learning materials to schools in Gauteng at a cost of R200-million‚ the Democratic Alliance (DA) said. Given EduSolutions’ questionable history‚ this should "raise loud alarm bells"‚ the DA’s shadow deputy minister of basic education‚ Desiree van der Walt‚ said.

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