JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission has found that the Mpumalanga education department violated the constitution, the right to basic education, when it failed to provide some schoolchildren with textbooks.
The SAHRC said: "Having considered the department's 2017/2018 annual report, the commission noted that on page 24 of the report, the department admitted to not being able to meet its target relating to the provision of learning and teaching support material - which should be at 100%".It gave the department until 12 March to respond to the allegations that it was in breach of section 29 of the country's supreme law.
She said in its annual report for the 2017/18 financial year the provincial education department stated that only 63% of learners had been provided with the required textbooks in all grades.
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