Charles Molele
The South African government has announced bold plans to phase out textbooks in all South Africans schools and replace them with digital content.
Speaking at the Ministerial Breakfast with Top Achievers (#Matric2018 breakfast session) organized to honour the 2018 top matric achievers on Thursday, deputy minister of Basic Education Enver Surty said all school learners in South Africa, from Grade 1 right up to Grade 12 will in not-too distant future access their study materials entirely through the internet.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to provide more details about government strategy to phase out textbooks in schools during his State of the Nation Address.
Surty said that the decision to embrace new technologies in education was aimed at the provision of quality education where bulky textbooks would be totally replaced by tablets and digital learning.
“We are going to develop digital content to enhance the quality of education
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