Johannesburg – Failure to deliver textbooks to schools in Limpopo has affected exam results in that province, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n
According to the paper, 70% of Grade 10 pupils in 25 Limpopo schools failed their June exams.<\/p>\n
This amounted to 3174 of 4529 pupils.<\/p>\n
Principals told the paper the dire results were likely to be mirrored in the rest of the province.<\/p>\n
“Teachers are willing to assist, even over weekends, but we don’t have any money to pay them,” said Henry Raedani of Azwifarwi Secondary School.<\/p>\n
“The children have been suffering without books.”<\/p>\n
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the media had overplayed the failure to deliver textbooks.<\/p>\n
“This question of no teaching for six months is a media story, and now principals are jumping on the bandwagon when they have not done their work,” she was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Limpopo ANC youth league spokesperson Jacob Lebogo reportedly said both Motshekga and Limpopo MEC for education Dickson Masemola should be removed. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Johannesburg – Failure to deliver textbooks to schools in Limpopo has affected exam results in that province, the Sunday Times reported. According to the paper, 70% of Grade 10 pupils in 25 Limpopo schools failed their June exams. This amounted to 3174 of 4529 pupils. Principals told the paper the dire results were likely to … Continue reading “70% of children in Limpopo province fail school”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,460,436,438],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-angie-motshekga","tag-limpopo","tag-textbooks"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}