led government aims to spend five hundred and twenty four million rand to fund the roll out of textbooks for pupils in the general education and training band in the poorest sixty percent of schools for the two thousand ten school year and beyond to boost literacy and numeracy in the early grades these textbooks will guide teachers on the sequence and pace required to complete the curriculum more effectively and will benefit the learners who do not have access to textbooks there are over three point five million of these learners the books will include daily exercises and will be available in all eleven official languages this initiative is in line with the anc government’s aims to ensure progressive realisation of universal schooling