The Minister of Education and Human Development (MINEDH), Carmelita Namashulua, is devising strategies to subvert public opinion regarding the scandal of errors in the 2022 free sixth grade textbooks while seeking to avoid her resignation.

The idea necessarily involves attributing the incompetence to Firoza Bicá - the author of the Social Sciences book - and to the "external hand".

A national newspaper reports that the Minister met privately with sociopolitical analysts from the media square, last week, in one of the hotel resorts in the prime zone of Maputo city.

Quoting the minister, the newspaper writes that the latter reportedly told analyst-commentators that political sabotage created the situation, but also that it was necessary to talk about the author of the sixth grade social science textbook, Firoza Bicá. "You guys never talk about Firoza. Do you attack her too? She exists and you never talk about her..

In this sense, the job for commentators is this: subvert public opinion by spreading an analytical perspective that blamed the textbook errors on "outside forces" to the detriment of Minister Namashulua.

"Commentators should not say that the Minister is not incompetent, but that she is being the victim of political sabotage that includes.... the outside hand," it reads.

The same source says that some members of the School Book Evaluation Committee do not recall evaluating books containing errors.

Of the 20 members of that committee only Ismael Nheze, who held the position of Director of the National Institute for Education Development, was suspended.