THE government must stop blaming other people for the non-delivery of textbooks in Limpopo.
Advocate Wim Trengove, representing Section 27, told the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein yesterday that government had a responsibility to ensure every pupil received textbooks on time.
Trengove was arguing against the government’s application to set aside a high court ruling that the failure to provide textbooks to schools in Limpopo was a violation of pupils’ rights to basic education and equal dignity.
The basic education department’s Advocate Chris Erasmus told the court the government was doing the best it could to provide pupils with textbooks.
Judge Mahomed Navsa said he failed to understand the government’s case.
“Shouldn’t the department of basic education just admit it was wrong?” he asked.
Judgment was reserved.
