More books dumped
YET another pile of books has been found dumped in Limpopo. This brings to three the number of incidents in which textbooks were found dumped in the province.
CRIME SCENE:
These books were found at a dumping site at Majeje village, near Phalaborwa.
PHOTO: SUPPLIED
The local police were called to Majeje village near Phalaborwa shortly after the discovery of the books yesterday. They are believed to have been dumped on Sunday.
Mathematics textbooks for grades 6 to 12 and teachers' guides were among the books .
It is still not known who is responsible for dumping the books. Police are investigating.
The national Department of Education and the provincial department have been in the spotlight for failing to deliver textbooks to schools on time.
A resident in the area, Edmund Mbetse, who discovered the books, said he saw many pupils in the village in possession of textbooks and asked where they had got them from.
Mbetse said he was told the books had been dumped, and he went to investigate. He said more than 5000 books were found at the scene.
"I'm very disappointed that all these stories we have been hearing about the dumping of books has now happened in our area," Mbetse said.
"We call on law enforcement agencies to investigate the matter and arrest those responsible for the dumping of books.
"The Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, must also come on board to explain what led to the dumping of the books."
Spokeswoman for the police Lieutenant-Colonel Ronel Otto confirmed yesterday that books were found dumped yesterday morning and that investigations were under way to determine how and why the books came to be dumped there.
"We are investigating the origin of the books and why they were dumped at the area," Otto said.
In June, books were found being shredded while others were being burnt at a site in Seshego.
Last month, another load of textbooks was found dumped near the Nsami Dam in Giyani.
Panyaza Lesufi, spokesman for the Department of Basic Education, yesterday called on law enforcement agencies to double their efforts in investigating the matter relating to the dumping of books.
He said he believed the truth would come out relating to the motives. - frankm@sowetan.co.za
- This article was first published in print on 7 August 2012
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Vhamsanda
Now , if the president is still reluctant to fire the Minister after all the overwhelming evidence , then it is now clear that he is not fit to run the country.Report Abuse
Lehido
This ia bad and IntentionalReport Abuse
Mhambuma1
Maybe Juju had sumthing to do with it since he is so eager to see the present administration fail.Report Abuse
Blackthought
Organised crime....that's what it is!Report Abuse
malemaforpresident
This is no longer a jokeReport Abuse
wendyyah
this is sabotage, ayikho into enjeReport Abuse
ndhandhazi
Act of sabotage. ANGIE is innocent here. Criminals and those recycling paper are involved.Report Abuse
Shenene
Somewhere in LimpopoTeacher: what does HIV stand for?
Thabo: Holiday In Venda
Teacher: you stupid boy, what does STD stand for?
Themba: Stup!d Taxi Driver
Teacher: you boys are stup!d, last week u said ngwana pere ke perekisi, now u still repeat your stup!d!ty. And wena Tebogo i asked nicely what a baby lizzard is and u said lizzy. Wena Thabang wa tshega and that day I ask gore ditlhapi di nna kae ware
ko dithining. Lerato tla re utlwe, ngwana kgomo ke eng?
Lerato: kgomotso.
.....do u blame them??? No textbooks!!! lol
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MicaParis
This is a serious sabotage by the Limpopo ANC brigades in a bit to boycott Comrade Zuma's section 100 intervention! As for the faith and hope on our ANC top trusted Comrades I would like to applaud and give them a self deserved high profile stinky credit for their stunning display of Group (ANC) and Individual (Zuma, Angie, Mathale and Masemola) great stupidity!! Thank you very much Comrade for raping and getting our education system down the filthy rotten self enrichment drain leaving it so embarrassingly naked and extremely fatally flat frustrated! Thank you for the bad job well done ''Comrades''!!??Report Abuse
MokankanyaneM
We have over 200 doctors that cannot be hired but we are paying public servants and politicians to waste our taxes.Till when must we pay allegiance to a government that spits in the faces of its citizenry?
Yesterday it was the R8m for imaginary potholes, today this, tommorrow we will wake up to find that Mzanzi has been sold to China or America with all of us.
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