It was the latest in a series of discarded book cache discoveries since July 2012, Beeld reported.  

The books found on Wednesday were syllabus textbooks for English and Afrikaans for different grades.  

Police said they were investigating the incident.

Meanwhile the Limpopo education department has refused to divulge information on its policy on destroying old school textbooks.  

Democratic Alliance spokeswoman for education in Limpopo, Desiree van der Walt, said the department had until Friday to release the information.

“If they don’t do it, we’re going to ask the Human Rights Commission to investigate the issue,” she said.

The DA asked the department over a month ago, in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act of 2000, to disclose information about its policy.

Van der Walt said it looked as though the department “either did not understand that information in any democracy has to be made public, or that the books were destroyed without the necessary authority”.

Education department spokesman Pat Kgomo did not respond to queries about the issue on Wednesday.

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Sep 6, 2012

DJ-Winner

Zuma admin sabotage. It is now boring. Not funny twice....
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Sep 6, 2012

MOKOPANEDUDE

Malema pls cum and help in Limpopo as u do with other provincs
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Sep 6, 2012

MagakalaaMmatlopo

Cmon guys, this is a pure subotage. why all of a sudden they just be dumbed next to magistrate court, this is stupid and people are busy playing with poor poeple's feelings for their political gain. If south africa was another country, Cassel Mathale and his gronies should have been logged up.
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Sep 6, 2012

D-liciousLips

mxm
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Sep 6, 2012

swona

Malema was and now is mute about the Auditor General's report, that reflects so mauch into the area of his speciality-politics, for so far Municipalities are run by politicians, and the media as well is busy with Marinkana and the mines, think we should shift the focus back to the Audit report, enough with Malema, Marinkana and mine workers and nationalisation, how can you nationalise a mine yet you dont have a clean audit report on various departments?
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Sep 6, 2012

lindsay

yeah sure moving right along
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Sep 6, 2012

ChildoftheSoil

Malema and his cronies(The Mathales) are the cause of all these problems. Juju is so quite about the textbooks saga but he has instead skipped provinces to the North West trying to sort out Marikana problems. God forbid-oooh!
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Sep 6, 2012

Neto

Sacrificing innocent kids to sabotage National government intervention in Limpopo because of their greediness.
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Sep 6, 2012

thabiso992000

In 2007 when the crocodile smile shower head was established as the new president of the ANC come president of SOUTH AFRICA, i told the whole people that we are heading for difficult times, and i was not wrong, and the boers while we are going on about this shananigans, they are busy brainwashing their brigades at Caroliner or what ever, that is why the killed someone because he looks like Osama Bin Laden
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Sep 6, 2012

WarrenG

To keep winning elections ANC needs to keep as many followers uneducated as possible
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