Limpopo scholars on their own: DA
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THE Democratic Alliance has rejected a catch-up plan for Limpopo pupils and said it would lobby for Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to be hauled before parliament's portfolio committee to explain the debacle.
The DA's Annette Lovemore sayspupils are now required to rely on study guides to catch up during their winter holidays in the absence of teachers, who will be on training during this period.
Lovemore said Motshekga was placing sole responsibility for the "education of these children in the hands of the children themselves".
She said the catch-up plan dealt only with Grade 10 pupils and consisted of only two paragraphs stating that pupils will be provided with subject guides for self-study during the winter holiday.
"These learners are now six months behind their peers in other provinces as a result of the chaos in the province's education system."
Lovemore added that, given many schools in Limpopo still did not have textbooks, it was unlikely that the study materials would arrive on time.
Attempts to get comment from Motshekga's spokesman, Hope Mokgatlhe, were unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, human rights group Section 27 yesterday said it did not have an update on the progress of textbook delivery in Limpopo.
The principal of Tlakulani high school outside Giyani in Limpopo, Norman Manganye, said by Monday they had received textbooks for 11 subjects and books for three subjects were still outstanding. -


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Mike123
Posted 328 days agoLes4uu
Posted 328 days agoThe ANC will soon find themselves in back benches of Parliament, they are best in lying, thieving, fraud, JGZ783, Poor service delivery and more.
Timbuck9
Posted 328 days agoOnly hear how GREAT the ANC is when you tune in.... I opt to TUNE OUT!
Thank goodness for MP4 players... :o)
SuiGeneris
I now buy and watch dvds [educational and entertainment] only !
Theye
Posted 328 days agoGregQuinn
mzansi-wanda
Posted 328 days agoImagine how many more much needed scientists, engineers and doctors would have been produced but for the castastrophic failure of the Education Department. Big up to the gifted and hard working kids from Limpopo.
Note: in Jozi and Cape Town, you will meet people who discredit your achievements and call you AA employments. Ignore them.
Julius Malema though from Limpopo is not an ideal role model. Education and sheer hard work is the way not short cuts like tenderpreneuring. Hope that the GODS keep all of you covered in a blanket of peace, love and prosperity.
Rock42
Posted 328 days agoRogueTrooperv2
Posted 328 days agoThe childre of this country are the future of this country and for as long as the ANC continues to lie and steal for their own gain we are on a one way road to a FAILED STATE...we are almost there already!!! The ANC as a whole have no interest in the ordinary man on the street and no interest in the future and sustainability of this country. They are fat cats that need to have the trough ripped out from under them...soon, before they take us all down with them.
The tragedy here is that it's the innocent children that are going to suffer, their parent beloved ANC is failing them outright and ensuring that they follow their parents into a life of poverty and suffering through a lack of education. The worst thing the idiotic ANC delegates did at Polokwane was elect an uneducated and corrupt fraudster to the position of president because it set a precedent! Who needs to be educated when as an uneducated man you can become president of the republic? His lack of education has shown itself in how he handles his personal affair, how he deals with criticism, how easily he is manipulated by those that control his puppet strings and most distressing, how he 'leads' the government. He is an embarrasment and needs to be removed as a matter of urgency before he does something really stupid like hand our future to the up and coming new colonialists, China or worse just allows the current rot to accelorate to the point of us standing on the handout line next to Zimbabwe!!!
I repeat, the children of this country are the FUTURE of this country and as such deserve maximum support from this government...after all this kids are the future taxpayers which means more food for the trough so the ANC best get their sh!t together and make education the No.1 priority.
Lastly, for the current state of affairs in basic education...I think that dear Angie Mothshekga should be arrested and put on trial for gross human rights violations and child abuse for her complete ineptness!!!