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Senior ANC leader Jeff Radebe has admitted that his government’s failure to deliver textbooks to Limpopo schools was a national “shame”.

Speaking to reporters at the ANC policy conference in Midrand yesterday, Radebe – who is also the party’s head of policy – said the deepening textbook crisis had brought more questions than answers.

His comments came as the Department of Basic Educationscrambled to meet a new deadline its officials had agreed on with non-governmental organisation Section 27 to supply all Limpopo schools with textbooks by yesterday

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