In a bid to end the chaos of text book shortages, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced in April that she would establish an agency in her department to centralise the procurement of teaching materials such as textbooks. Siyavula, the Shuttleworth Foundation incubated project that aims to provide free and open access to textbooks and learning resources, has come out in support of this initiative.
They will be submitting their openly licensed Mathematics and Physical Sciences textbooks, which can be read on a mobile phone and freely downloaded, to the Department of Basic Education as part of the review process for the new National Catalogue.
