Deep cleaning of classrooms at Bedfordview Primary School in Bedfordview, 26 May 2020 ahead of pupils returning to school after lockdown measures were introduced to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The red crosses on each desk is to stop anyone sitting too close to other pupils. Picture: Neil McCartney
Remember, the back to school dates were published in a typically byzantine Government Gazette on 29 May. So, the legal position was that Grades 7 and 12 should return on 1 June. Yet Sunday headlines raised doubts about when schools would reopen. The statement seemed designed not to communicate. The most important information – the date on which “learners” should return – did not appear in the headline or in the first five paragraphs.. Indeed, if Sunday was exam time, Motshekga and her support staff failed.
Motshekga, 64, knows these shortcomings. What has she done to overcome them since being appointed basic education minister in 2009? Not enough. Scandals during her massively funded 11 years include wide-scale nondelivery of books and multiple deaths of schoolchildren in pit toilets.Another week of haggling is not going fix this.
Not only motshekga. All the anc structures. All depertments have (as usual) failed. Look at labour, health, co oparative all failed evn the president failed
They have been failing schools for years, and were enabled by the parents who would just pay more for things to get done at schools, but for those in poor communities where kids had to rely on them for help, they did only half of nothing to help. Pupils are left in limbo
In a normal performing democracy/meritocracy, this Minister would long have been dismissed. She bungles almost anything from textbooks to the detriment of the future of poor children.
The saddest part is, people are going to be shocked and amazed about this.....
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