No crèche or preschool for 1.1m children

It is mid-morning on a hot Monday. Driving in Soweto, most streets are quiet — most children are at school and adults at work. The streets of Elias Motsoaledi informal settlement near Diepkloof are also relatively quiet.

Mbele was 18 when she fell pregnant. She dropped out of school in grade 11 to look after her son. Two years later, she fell pregnant with her second born. When Simamkele was two months old, her then boyfriend — the father of both her sons — disappeared. She hasn’t seen him since. “Sometimes as a person you have to go through life on your own so that you can discover what you want in life. If you’re going to depend on your parents forever you will not learn anything about life,” she says about her reason for not moving out with her family.

“So if I had to take my children to crèche in this R840 that I get, we would not survive,” she says. As well as school fees, she would also have to buy them a lunch snack to take to crèche. There are also trips that they would have to go on. She says: “I would feel guilty when other children go on a trip and my kids are unable to go because I cannot afford to pay for them.”

The review noted that these children are already at a disadvantage when they begin formal schooling. Ilifa Labantwana is a nonprofit organisation that aims to expand access to quality early childhood development. “Over two million children live in households where no members are working, either in the formal sector or in informal employment. These households would be entirely dependent on social grants and remittances from family members living elsewhere,” the report states.

'School' at 2 years old does more harm than good.

Well obviously the answer is to outlaw early learning for everybody.

My kids went to preschool at the age of 3. 2y is too young.

Unathi_Kwaza 0 to 2 year old kids don't need to be in school. This is madness.

Now!! you tell Eskom,, to stop asking for money. Cause there's children who needs it.

Uhm, my kid stayed with me until grade R and he is a top ten student. JustSaying

My children didnt attend creche til 3years old. Instead I played with them and importantly gave them love and PARENTED THEM! Why have kids?

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