Education activist backs call for a probe into the textbook tender scandal [SOUND]

# Education activist Hendrick Makaneta has applauded minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube for calling for accountability in the 1.6-billion-rand textbook tender. Lighthouse Publishers was awarded over a quarter of the total tender for the publishing of foundation phase textbooks, despite being registered days after the formal briefing on the contract requirements. Makaneta says while schools still face deep inequality, government cannot allow money meant for learners to be misused: