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World Service,04 Oct 2012,25 mins

On the trail of South Africa’s missing textbooks

Assignment

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Many schoolchildren in South Africa’s Limpopo province have gone for months without school books. There was money to buy the books. There was also a contract to deliver them. Yet they didn’t arrive. Many students and parents are furious with politicians of the governing ANC – and say the problem is due to mismanagement and alleged corruption. For Assignment, Rob Walker investigates the mystery of the missing books.

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