Angie's hotline is cold comfort
Thousands of pupils have gone without textbooks for the first half of the year, with several of them facing the possibility of having to repeat a grade.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga's solution? A hotline to establish how many schools in Limpopo are still without textbooks.
The hotline, which Motshekga said would be operational from Monday, has been set up three weeks after a probe by former Higher Education director-general Mary Metcalfe found that more than 33000 schools had not received textbooks.
Metcalfe recommended several strategies to prevent the collapse of education in Limpopo.
A hotline was not one of them.
A snap survey by The Times yesterday suggested that, at one school, 187 Grade 10 pupils had performed dismally in their June exams because of the non-delivery of textbooks. At another school, 381 pupils had to make do with only 57 textbooks, forcing them to make photocopies of the books at exorbitant cost.
Motshekga has described the late delivery of textbooks as "sabotage" by service providers.


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Posted 295 days agodefacto69
Duzula
Posted 295 days agoThis hotline wouldn't work its just another waste of time and money...
In this saga no one wants to take responsibility for failing the Pupils...
m1si2zi3nzo4
Smaiza
The question that you need to ask yourself is DO I KNOW EVERYTHING? or Just ask people, DOES ANYONE HAVE INFORMATION ON HOW JZ HOT LINE WORKS?
Let me give highlights JZ hot line is very much working two weeks back their advertised 18 call center contract jobs for three years.
Many people (including councilors) have been arrested on corruptions related issues...most housing...
m1si2zi3nzo4
defacto69
Tokolosh
Posted 295 days agoIt is clear that you do not know what you are doing OR the people that work for you do not know what they are doing minister Motshekga. For such a long time to go by, just shows minister Motshekga does not have the knowledge or the vigor to manage such important role in government!
To be so sabotaged and your managers and assistants and subordinates let it happen for so long… maybe they are the saboteurs.
The buck and blame stops with the boss, I am sorry to say! It is her whole departments fault!
KafreeMoneykey
Posted 295 days agoThuka-Thuka
defacto69
Thuka-Thuka
Posted 295 days agoOh just fire her already.
bos
Posted 295 days agoI personal feel that people that supposed to take a fall are managers from national to district level to the people that were responsible for logistic and planning. If she don’t use her role to fire the incompetent people then she need to go too.
600 strikes across the country, Counsellors take a fall, managers a protected by the labour act policy even thou managers are key people in our service delivery.
She must start realising people that are incompetent.
s have become massangers
BobbyBob
Posted 295 days agoBut, should the minister resign? I dont think so. We know that the public service is riddled with corruption, cadre deplyment and incompetence. Every department ( with few exceptions like SARS) , has crises regularly. If we ask a minister to resign every time a new crisis arises,we will have a massive turnover of ministers all the time, and that also cant be good.
Investor44
Posted 295 days agom1si2zi3nzo4