The delayed delivery of stationery to schools in the Grahamstown district is expected to be complete by Monday, says Noxolo Gwarube, acting project manager for stationery at the Department of Education.
The delayed delivery of stationery to schools in the Grahamstown district is expected to be complete by Monday, says Noxolo Gwarube, acting project manager for stationery at the Department of Education.
Gwarube said the department’s service providers started delivering stationery to schools on Monday and will continue until next Monday. “They have delivered stationery to 25 schools thus far,” she explained yesterday.
“Tomorrow they will deliver to 12 more schools and finish off with the last six on Monday.” While Gwarube confirmed the court case she refused to comment further on the matter. “The court case has been covered in the media, it is now old news and the matter should not be brought up again,” she said.
Explaining why some local schools still do not have textbooks, Gwarube said Section 21 schools get money from the department to buy their textbooks from book stores and that the department only supplies textbooks directly to Section 20 schools.
“Section 21 schools might have ordered the books late from the book stores and that could be why they are still expecting more textbooks to come to them,” she said.
