This exact phrase. In the article. Headings only. In the first paragraph. Sort By Change Sort Order Publication date latest first Publication date earliest first Headline alphabetical Author alphabetical. Advanced Search. Clear Search. Close Login. Forgot you username or password? He said the main cause for delays in Thohoyandou was that the contracted companies did not pitch up to receive their consignments, despite several calls reminding them to do so.
Some principals were also reported to have refused to come to their respective schools to receive the delivered textbooks. The department reiterated that except for Grades 1 to 3 and Grade 10, all other Grades received textbooks in January.
Grades 1 to 3 received workbooks and the delays were in the supplementary material. Delay in delivery must be investigated In a joint statement, the department and Section 27 - a rights organisation that seeks to influence, develop and use the law to protect, promote and advance human rights - agreed to jointly appoint an independent entity to do an audit and evaluation of deliveries, as well as conduct an independent verification of the progress reports on the delivery of textbooks to schools.
This would help to avert a similar crisis in future. To assist learners who have fallen behind in their work, a catch-up programme has been started which involves teacher training and extra tuition for Grade 10 learners.
Executive Director of Section 27, Mark Heywood, said he acknowledged the department's co-operation in the matter, despite missing several deadlines. Meanwhile, the department has approached the Nelson Mandela Foundation to convene an education summit between the Minister of Basic Education and all NGOs and education sector-based organisations to get through issues related to quality education.
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Please enquire at the Financial Aid office for the current limits. The process leading to the decision is said not to be fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective.
The amount is said to likely increase in respect of the following four years. According to the applicant, this will result in a wasteful and irregular expenditure of public funds.
The loss of revenue will cause severe prejudice and irreparable harm to the interest of the applicant, so it was contended. According to the applicant, it has in good faith, invested significantly in the development and production of textbooks in the interests of education in South Africa.
Condoning non-compliance with the Rules of Court and directing that the application be heard as a matter of urgency in terms of Rule 6 12 ;. Reviewing and setting aside:. Directing the second and third respondents to ensure that the officials of the Department;.
That the costs of the application be paid by the second and third respondents jointly and severally, unless any of the fourth to twelfth respondents oppose the application, in which event any such respondents who oppose the application, are to pay the costs of the application, jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absolved. The interdict relief was sought in Part A of the notice of motion. I agreed, provided that the matter is heard on Monday the 9 September instead of Tuesday 10 September The reason for this was, the papers are voluminous, more than pages and in terms of the practice directive, such a matter will require a special date.
Monday the 9 September was meant to be my reading day and Part B of the notice of motion was scheduled for hearing on the 10 September First, the non-joinder issue and second, lack of urgency. As such the Minister of Basic Education should have been joined a Co-Respondent which the applicant has failed to do.
I have been advised in the absence of all parties having a direct and material interest in the matter the above Honourable Court will not grant". I find it necessary to deal first with the basis of the attack on the non-joinder of publishers. The issue is therefore whether the non-joined publishers who have been selected and orders had in fact already been placed with them, have a direct and substantial interest in the relief sought.
Other ten publishers have not been joined. It was contended that none of them have direct and substantial interest in the relief sought. The relief sought in paragraph 6 of the notice of motion has been quoted in paragraph 6 of this judgment. Once a relief sought in paragraph 6 of Part B is granted, there would be no legal basis for the Department and the said ten publishers to continue to contract with each other. In other words, that the relief sought is to review and set aside the entire decision in terms of which the selected publishers were required to provide textbooks.
Secondly, that the court should review and set aside any order issued to publishers for the delivery of textbooks. OUP is the applicant. Here, the applicant was referring to the ten publishers who have not been joined in these proceedings. In other words, the entire decision of the second and or third respondent must first be reviewed and set aside as prayed for in prayer 6, before correction of ranking of publishers and correction of the alleged errors made in capturing of the prices by the applicant.
This contention should be seen in the light of the attitude by the applicant that there is nothing wrong with the relief sought in prayer 6 of the notice of motion. Of course, the applicant cannot be right if he still wants to argue that the ten publishers do not have direct and substantial interest in the matter. In other words, the non-joinder issue should be found to be justified. Neither of these publishers has been joined in these proceedings.
I did not hear the applicant to be suggesting that it cannot be said they have no material and substantial interest in these proceedings. After the Department had given an explanation, the two publishers did nothing to challenge the explanation or the decision to substitute the zero-pricing. Counsel suggested that by so doing, it must be assumed that they never intended to participate in these proceedings and that therefore it was not necessary to join them in these proceedings.
There is no evidence to suggest that the present proceedings ever came to their attention. Secondly, counsel for the applicant from the bar suggested that Shutter and Shooter elected not to challenge the decision to change their zero pricing was an indication that they had no interest in the present proceedings, particularly that their query to the Department was raised before the institution of the present proceedings.
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