Primary schools to get P50m worth of textbooks

Books on display at one of the launch in Gaborone PIC: KABO MPAETONA
Books on display at one of the launch in Gaborone PIC: KABO MPAETONA

Government has recently approved procurement of recommended reading materials for public primary schools at the cost of P50.6 million after the process was withdrawn last year due to ‘fund constraints’.

Last year the education ministry’s tender number: PR6/7/9-1 for the supply of textbooks in these schools was approved, but later waived apparently without the publishers’ knowledge.

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) had requested for authority to award the tender to about six publishers.

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