Despite being in charge and control of everything from Taxes, Budget, Finance, Police, Army, Hospitals, Roads, Municipalities, Councils, Parliament, Judiciary, Customs, etc. etc. the black majority government in South has been unable to do anything more than consume the wealth that whites created prior to 1994.
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After a Quarter Century of Black Rule in SA, “Blacks” Still Blame “Whites” For EVERYTHING! When will blacks appropriate accountability, responsibility, duty and honour?
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State-of-the-art school in Gauteng that cost the state R248‚159‚795 stands empty
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A state-of-the-art school built for children with special needs in Gauteng stands empty.
Where there should be the sound of children playing, there is silence. Where there should be learning, there are empty classrooms. Where there should be teaching, there are blank chalkboards.
This is the situation at the Nokuthula Centre and Special School in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg. Nokuthula is a “LSEN school”, meaning it caters for “learners with special education needs”.
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Has “South Africa” gone forever? Living as a stranger in your own country… no longer proudly South African!
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I was hoping it will not be necessary for me to write this, and have been putting it off, but I cannot hide this anymore. It is like a bad dream – a horrible nightmare. Every time when I open my eyes, think normally, think realistically, I shake my head in disbelief. “It cannot be true!”
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Four schools torched in a week: It’s a disgrace! – Hundreds of children will be affected by the vandalism
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The loss of four schools to arson in a week carries a cost of as much as R160-million if government needs to rebuild them. The human cost is to the hundreds of children affected by the vandalism. Yet the culprits evade repercussions.
The Department of Basic Education – which is affected by budget cuts – is outraged at this state of affairs.
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Act of stupidity: Protesters torched two schools in Mpumalanga – What about your kids education?
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Two schools were set alight in Mpumalanga on Friday, just three days after another school was burned in the North West.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, Basic Education department spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga alleged that protesters unhappy with by-election burned the two schools on Friday.
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History will now become a compulsory subject in High School – Will it be abused as a political propaganda tool?
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will on Thursday release the ministerial task team report into the possibility of introducing history as a compulsory subject in grades 10‚ 11 and 12.
At present‚ pupils take history to grade 9 and are permitted to drop it in grade 10.
The plan has been criticised in some quarters‚ with some fearing that history will be abused as a political propaganda tool‚ as in Zimbabwe‚ where the history syllabus in government schools is reportedly biased in favour of the ruling Zanu-PF.
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New History Curriculum In South Africa Schools To Be More Afrocentric
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Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, has announced sweeping changes to the teaching of history as a school subject, saying it would be Afrocentric and not based on European history.
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FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL: BUT STUDENTS ARE BURNING DOWN RESOURCES
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Numerous lecturers and students live in fear after the Bethlehem Campus of the Maluti Technical and Vocational College (a TVET college) had averted in a war zone when buildings were bombarded with gasoline bombs.
Sgt. Police spokesperson Mmako Mophiring said anarchy and chaos broke out on campus on Friday when protesters demanded the immediate dismissal of the college’s chief, Veli Mabena.
Basic Education Department – No repeat year for pupils under 10
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Pupils under the age of 10 years could soon “cruise through” their foundation phase without repeating a grade, if the new “learner progression” plan being mooted by the Department of Basic Education goes ahead.
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga recently said in Parliament that expert opinion suggested it was not beneficial for pupils in the lower grades, between the ages of 6 and 10, to repeat a grade.
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May 1st is Communism Day. Let’s Remember the Victims of Communism and ask Where are the Nuremberg Trials for Communism?
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This year, “living in truth” required us to condemn foreign governments, educational institutions, and publishing houses for historical revisionism. They are whitewashing the brutal record of communist party rule in some 40 countries and obscuring the many atrocities committed in the name of the world’s deadliest ideology: communism. The evil that rides shotgun with the ANC and EFF…
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Gauteng Education MEC horrified over “racist” hanging doll
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The Gauteng Education MEC was left shell-shocked when he walked outside his office to find peopling “hanging” a doll of him.
South Africans are furious after a tweet from Gauteng Education Minister Panyaza Lesufi went viral for all the wrong reasons. While the issue involves Lesufi, the fury is definitely not directed at him.
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Zuma Asks Why it Took so Long to introduce Free Education
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Former President Jacob Zuma has reportedly questioned why it’s taken the country so long to introduce free higher education for poor and working-class students.
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Anglicising Afrikaans Schools Will Speed Up The Country’s Decline
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It is astonishing that Mary Metcalfe, whose educational legacy in Gauteng was characterised by one foolish, abandoned experiment after the other, should pontificate on the issue of Afrikaans schools (“War talk won’t end language row”, June 5). The very prowess of those schools and their exceptional results depended for years on avoiding, sometimes even surreptitiously, the more disastrous policies and decisions emanating from the provincial education minister’s office.
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Lucky Miss for Earth (and the Establishment). Previously Unknown Football Field Sized Asteroid Misses Earth by Half Lunar Distance!
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With very little warning, a relatively large asteroid appeared and flew through the Earth-Moon system on April 15th only 192,200 km (half the distance between the moon and earth – 0.5 LD) from our planet. 2018 GE3 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey approaching Earth on April 14th.
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Basic education failures, 20 – 25 year olds still sitting in school
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In the “old days” children left school at the age of 18 or 19 years. Some pupils left matric or st.10 at age 17 and went to work or study.
Now the situation is that “pupils” between the ages of 20 and 25 are still sitting at the school desks, and this is confirmed by the Eastern Cape MEC of Education, Mandla Makupula
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