Sebilo Book Services: A new piece in the publishing puzzle

I think all of us can accept that the publishing industry in our country is weak, and at the moment, with few to no school books being bought —it’s nearly dead. We lack any vibrant book buying public.

We have no well-established book distributors. We have no trade publishers. And though for a while, the bookstores managed to survive by selling books to the government for schools, some years ago the government decided to buy directly from publishers therefore cutting off the oxygen to independent bookstores in the country. Sebilo Book Services is trying to use innovative ways to revive our publishing sector of the economy.

I had a chance to interview Kopano Ben Sechele about his company.

Editor's Comment
A promising step for public schools, but...

For too long, the state of many public schools has been a source of shame. We have all seen the pictures and heard the stories of broken windows, unreliable water and electricity, topped by classrooms that are not fit for proper learning. The establishment of the Education Infrastructure and Management Company Ltd (EIMC) signals that authorities are finally ready to take this problem seriously. We must commend the government for this initiative....

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