The court application brought against the education department has been removed from the Gauteng Division Pretoria High Court roll.
The judge said that the matter was not supposed to have come to court in the first place. The judge encouraged the parties to reach an agreement outside court because the department had put in place systems to address all the matters regarding the delivery of textbooks in Limpopo.
The court has urged the parties to reach an agreement or otherwise return to court on April 22 for argument. The applicants also told court that the department had addressed the issues they had raised as part of their court action.
An initial consignment of 6,9 million textbooks have thus far been delivered for the 2014 school year to 1,7 million learners in 4 059 schools in the Limpopo. Publishers are currently making deliveries of 387,000 textbooks of the order that was made on March 20 after schools reported shortages.
The department has taken extra ordinary steps to ensure that books are delivered on time and that any reported shortages are addressed.
The department continues to welcome reports of shortages from anybody and these are attended to as a matter of urgency.
