Afrikaner author, publisher and commentator Dan Roodt took to Twitter on Thursday to call out Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi on his vow that names of historical leaders, used for example in Hoërskool Hendrik Verwoerd in Tshwane, would be replaced by new ones. The education MEC says he will take the author ‘to the cleaners’..
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Afrikaner author, publisher and commentator Dan Roodt calls Lesufi non-‘South African’ ‘racist’
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Over 250,000 Undocumented Pupils In Gauteng Schools – most of them migrants from neighbouring countries
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JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi on Wednesday said provincial schools were catering for more than 250,000 undocumented pupils. Lesufi made the comment as he delivered his submissions before the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) inquiry looking into service delivery problems in Alexandra. The hearing was launched following protests over a lack of..
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What on earth is wrong with the youth of today:- Mobile classrooms burnt in protest over delayed repairs at Joburg school, the same same school where they burned the mobile classroom
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Mobile classrooms were set alight on Monday morning at Oakdale Secondary School in Ennerdale, in the south of Joburg. Among other demands, the community has been frustrated over delays to repairs to the school’s roof, which was damaged during a storm last year. The roof damage affected four classrooms. Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi was..
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Hoërskool Driehoek: Parliamentary answer confirms the negligence of Lesufi – ordinary people and learners had to suffer because ANC did not rule for all and target minorities for their own defects
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The FF Plus learned with shock, but without surprise, that infrastructure inspections at the Hoërskool Driehoek were done only on 8 April 2006, 20 September 2006 and 8 April 2014. In response to a FF Plus question in parliament, the minister of basic education acknowledged that the last investigation was conducted in July 2018 as..
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Well, MTN ‘cuts all ties’ with Afrikaans is Groot concert due to Steve Hofmeyr association, are they scared of the truth in his songs
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The company says AIG is not helping bring people together by including the controversial singer in its lineup. MTN responded to calls on social media to pull out its sponsorship of Afrikaans music concert, Afrikaans is Groot (AIG), after its inclusion of controversial musician Steve Hofmeyr in this year’s line-up. The show is scheduled to..
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Hoërskool Overvaal wins court case against Phanyaza Lesufi
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Gauteng education MEC, Phanyaza Lesufi’s court battle against Hoërskool Overvaal has not gone according to plan, SowetanLive reports. The Afrikaans medium high school made headlines earlier in the year after 55 English pupils were denied enrolment, stating that it had reached full capacity and could not afford to employ a handful of English teachers who..
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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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Who are you trying to fool Lesufi? – Education Dept Will Protect Afrikaans Language In Schools
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JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says that his department will protect and defend the Afrikaans language in schools.
The MEC was responding to a report that around 119 schools which were either Afrikaans medium or dual-medium have been changed to English.
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Lesufi must stop harassing Afrikaans schools in Gauteng Province
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The FF Plus in Gauteng said that the Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi, must stop picking on Afrikaans schools in the province. This was in response to the latest incident in which the MEC attacked Primary School Danie Malan, situated in Pretoria North, in the media and on social media on account of its language..
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