Providing textbooks, on time, to all schools is achievable - now

03 December 2015 - 02:05
By The Times Editorial

Does the constitutionally guaranteed right of every South African child to a basic education include the right of pupils at public schools to be provided with textbooks for each subject in time for the start of the academic year? This was the question the Supreme Court of Appeal grappled with in its consideration of an appeal by the Department of Basic Education relating to its failure to provide textbooks to thousands of Limpopo pupils at the beginning of the 2014 academic year.

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