The Limpopo
Education Department is under investigation following the department being
almost R1.2 billion in the red.
A forensic investigation revealed that some
senior officials in the provincial department were allegedly responsible for gross mismanagement and the process is still
on-going.
However the
National Department of Basic Education says it is more than ready to deliver
textbooks in all schools in Limpopo on time for the 2015 academic year.
The department has been put under
administration by the parliamentary cabinet due to the textbook saga in
2012.
Departmental
Spokesperson Elijah Mahlangu says there has been a collapse of systems in the
province such that the department did not know the number of schools and
learners in the province to an extent that the National Treasure contracted
Stats SA to go and do a head count to establish the numbers, so planning could
happen in an organised manner.
Mahlangu confirms
that such was done and as a result, they were able to make deliveries of the
different things that were needed in the province.
He also added
that, the intervention has worked; in fact, the Department of Education in that
Province is in a better position now than it was in 2011.
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