The Minister of Education and Human Development, Carmelita Namashulua, yesterday ordered the suspension of the Director of the National Institute for the Development of Education (INDE), Ismael Nhaze, due to errors in the Social Sciences textbook for the sixth grade of elementary school.

Also suspended was the entire Schoolbook Evaluation Board and the spokesperson for the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH), Gina Guibunda, who told a national newspaper "is on indefinite vacation."

INDE is the entity responsible for the evaluation of textbooks in Mozambique.

Namashulua has also ordered the recall of the sixth grade Social Science textbook in all primary schools in the country because of the errors.

"These are mistakes that shame us, unacceptable mistakes that even a child could not commit," said Minister Namashulua, stressing that "the indignation of society is the indignation of the government."

In this sense, the production of an erratum is cancelled, and the authorities should concentrate on collecting the more than 900 books already distributed. In fact, one page of erratum will suffice for the number of errors in the manual.

Another measure announced by the minister is the re-evaluation of all textbooks produced since 2016 in order to determine whether any further errors have been taught.

The Minister was speaking today during a visit to Guebo Primary School, in the municipal district of KaMavota, in Maputo city, where she checked the deployment of the teaching of Social Sciences without the manual.

For now, teachers and students will continue to "reinvent" the lessons without the Social Science textbooks.