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Tue May 21 21:35:40 SAST 2013

Limpopo scholars on their own: DA

Sipho Masombuka | 27 June, 2012 00:039 Comments
Pupils at Selowe Primary in Silvermine, Limpopo, wait in line to enter their new classroom, donated, along with four others, by Gauteng-based Mathote Modular Building Systems.
Image by: KEVIN SUTHERLAND

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 ago
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Sometimes I wonder if Angie Motshekga also runs the SABC, or perhaps the SABC runs the department of basic education.

Les4uu

Posted 328 days ago
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@Mike123.... Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, lol

The 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 ago
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SABC is the ANC's MOUTHPIECE...

Only hear how GREAT the ANC is when you tune in.... I opt to TUNE OUT!

Thank goodness for MP4 players... :o)
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SuiGeneris

Posted 328 days ago
I disconnected my aerial from my TV two years ago because of this bias SABC [up the anc backside] programs plus I cancelled my DSTV subscription because of all the repeats !

I now buy and watch dvds [educational and entertainment] only !

Theye

Posted 328 days ago
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A Nation is judged on how it treats it's children. We know how South Africa treats their children under an ANC goverment. We rape them them first to get rid of AIDS, then we inpregnate them to get a social grant then we dumb them down to reading three letters ANC and writing one letter X. And that ladies and gentleman is the ANC paridise of the future.
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GregQuinn

Posted 328 days ago
Well said.

mzansi-wanda

Posted 328 days ago
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To date I believe Limpopo has the most naturally gifted people in SA. With so many obstacles, I was amazed that most Black people studying the Sciences and Commercial Courses were from Limpopo.

Imagine 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 ago
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Wouldn't it be an inspired campaign if the political parties mobilised some volunteers to assist these students during the holidays. Perhaps retired teachers or varsity students who are on holiday? They are willing to dance and sing and march, but will they put in some elbow grease and actually DO something of worth? Shall we continue to punish the children for our own failures? It is after all our fault that the current government was elected - we elected them, or failed to elect the opposition. And we continue to allow them to do whatever they want to without holding them accountable. We have alot to learn from Egypt!

RogueTrooperv2

Posted 328 days ago
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The current education crisis is a blight on our nation as a whole. The ANC may be to blame for the collapse but the voting public should bare the blame for giving them the mandate to govern this country. We need to take back our country from these thieving, corrupt, inept fraudsters that pose as politicians but are liars and bigots.
The 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!!!