“The legacy of racial discrimination in the South African education system, characterised by poor outcomes, overcrowded classrooms, inadequate facilities and learning materials for tens of thousands of students, still looms large 25 years into freedom,” the human rights group said in a statement on Monday announcing the launch of their #SignTheSmileOff campaign.
“The campaign urges members of the public who care about the provision of quality education to ‘sign the smile off Verwoerd’s face’ by demanding that South Africa’s leaders urgently provide all children with the decent quality, basic education that is their birthright as enshrined in the constitution. By signing the smile off Verwoerd’s face the public will add their names to a petition that calls on the government to fix the problems in education by 2021.
Amnesty SA executive director Shenilla Mohamed said in Monday’s statement that SA’s education system “still mirrors the apartheid years”. “Many schools serving our poorest communities rely on outdated and poorly maintained infrastructure and a dire lack of teaching resources that provides a wholly inadequate learning space for young people. While South Africa has made progress in providing access to education, it has yet to tackle the deeply entrenched legacy of apartheid, left by Hendrick Verwoerd, that continues to result in massive inequalities in the country’s education system.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
ruth_tladi Not in my province(EC), I will personally wreck that shit down. We can't be seeing Verwoerd face in billboards knowing what he has done to our people. This new dawn is getting more shadier each day, nothing is surprising anymore...
Read this article and this idea is stupid, I'm all for bettering our education system but the real problem is the people we call ministers not what they can or can't do.
Do not blame apartheid government when the new government cannot fix any problems and creating more problems in education
FAKE NEWS
U have nothing better to write about really.
Could they not get a local advertising agency to conceptualise this? Even if I agree with what they want to communicate, execution is just an epicfail
Surely the campaign could have been executed differently. This, right here, is very disturbing.
No man, that’s like putting a smiling face of Adolf Hitler in Tel Aviv and asking the Jews to sign it, as a way of healing the wounds of the Holocaust. This ain’t right.
Oh it’s a campaign. Surely they can find a different way to execute this.
Say it ain’t so 😩
EFFSouthAfrica do not allow this to happen
Okay I'mNasty and Nonsensical, why don't you try the same but this time using Adolf Hitler's face instead of Hendrik Verwoed?
Somebody burn/tear down those nonsese, nxa!
How flippen disgusting. We dont need to see this dogs face to imagine anything
Only in Johannesburg and cape town, not KZN never
This is an BIG insult to us black South Africans. 😖😖😖 EFFSouthAfrica Julius_S_Malema
And yet 2 schools in KZN and others in other parts of the country including a library at a well known university have been destroyed by the very same students attending those institutions ... Lacking facilities still relavant in the broader sense of the word?
We will tear that motherfucker down
We don't need his face
So-called sê moer. Only 25 years you're already rewriting a painful Azanian History like you did in 1652 when you came here uninvited. This time ni nyile.
People destroy these faces they are spitting on the graves of the deceased by putting up these faces of a racist dog
Yip. Just keep on opening those wounds. Good idea.
Kkkkk natives where are you
Rubbish .
the 'so-called'...🙄🙄 Really, Amnesty International?
Bayanya,
Think the fuck not.
WTF
This will be a great campaign, will get a lot of attention.
let them go put a smiling Hitler pic in Germany I wana see something.
In your wildest dreams honey, He'll still be up there LAUGHING in 10 years time. trust me here. Just another Dumb Ass Pro mo.
'Wipe the smile off Hendrik Verwoerd’s face by fixing the South African education system' Says Amnesty International. Just helping scrollers
Would amnesty do the same with Hitler to bring attention to social ills in Germany?
RochelleBarrish 😣😣
For fucken what?
So the incapable must fix the unfixable...... wow!!! It is like asking an alcoholic to manage your bottle store!!!
Part of me is for this. History has to be told in its entirety and be internalised by those it affects so that the same mistakes will not be repeated by future generations.
I now believe that the agreement was that they give power to black people only for 25 years. Ya they are back now
So called?
Maybe the legacy of Apartheid (though not denied) is over-shadowed by government incompetencies, the unionization of teachers and the total lack of respect by ANC for its devoted followers. How come the Indian community became so educated and consequently empowered under Aheid?
This is just another way of shirking the responsibility and accountability for the ANC failure to improve education in the last 25years.
To rub it in our face?
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Insulting us in the name of education, why can't they use their funds to improve the education system by providing better education strategies or technologies? Can they use the face of a smiling Hitler in lsrael for a similar campaign? This is disgusting.
People read the damn article before making assumptions will you. It’s a campaign to wipe the smile off his face by demanding adequate school reform. It’s because of him that our education system (and some of the current ANC) is the state it is today.
Our kindness is not up for sale and we will not be insulted ourbloodwasenough
What nonsense is this? Have they put a smiling face of Hitler in Tel Aviv?
This is a mockery of democracy and our constitution, what autocracy is he speaking of are they expecting a new president each year for the 25 years we've been in power... It is an attempt by the right wing in the minority... It shall fall the statue
Oh God. This is going to blow up!
Read article. Not headline. It's sad what black kids are subjected to in the majority of public schools
Here is me with paint spray doing the lords work
So 25 years has lapsed he's coming back
No doubt those behind this idea were not affected negatively by Verwoed's policies. To them apartheid is a smiling matter.
Waste of money. Seriously - give US that advert money instead!!!
Use something else to campaign for education not this thing
This is not right
Who gave them the permission to put up those smiling faces 🙄
How reckless of amnesty international, using esisirhama for a campaign.
Evil personified
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Propaganda rubbish. This advert only causes more hatred and anti-white racism towards white folk that are stuck in this shithole called South Africa. AmnestySAfrica and amnesty you will have blood on your hands for this deliberate hate
How about actually taking concrete action. Fix teachers, leaders, facilities etc. merely doing more pr don’t help.
But somebody can like to know why we blame amnestyinternational yet the problem is with ANC,,,?ANC is nomore the organization we used to be proud of,,,useless indeed are only after their gains
Come on he is not so called but the architect of killing masses of our people, why you always diplomatically defending apartheid?
He must indeed be smiling, in fact LOL'ing, wherever he is.
This is nonsense rhaa sies and it should be stopped, can we not be provoked?
It is not Verwoerd’s face that should accompany this worthwhile drive, but those who are responsible for the twenty five wasted years of substandard education ie the ANC Government and SADTU.
Can this country get any worse
To their chagrin Verwoerd was right! The low IQ masses have not benefited at all.
What is ANC really doing to us? Are we suppose to smile back at this dog?
This is a stupid idea amnesty. Are you prepared for the unintended consequences from those who have no idea of what you are and what you stand for?
It must be delt with
Why lere SO CALLED ARCHITECT OF APARTHEID? Wasnt he?
I'll say it again! This us what happens when you forgive people who never asked for forgiveness.
😂😂😂... I hope they'll put an army personal to guard this. Please put one in Yeoville or Hillbrow, I want to see what will happen..😂😂
Imagine putting up the face of Hitler to make a political point in Israel
Why so-called? He is the architect of apartheid
He's saying we told you so no doubt.
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