Publishers lose case against MoE on disqualified books

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Lobatse High Court has dismissed with costs a case in which Medi Publishing and Pentagon Publishers wanted the Ministry of Education to review and set aside the decision of the evaluation board in which it degraded and disqualified several books they published.

They further sought the court to declare that the books qualify to be included in the core list of the 2011 form two-prescription books.

In his assessment, Justice Key Dingake said most of the complaints by the applicants relating to bias and vested interest are not backed up by any evidence. "They are simply bald assertions," he said adding that there was the complaint that the stipulations of Invitation To Tender (ITT) were not observed but from his inspection ITT sets out the conditions in which the tender offers must comply with. 

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