‘Joke’ shows urgency of decolonising education
The impression is that, as black African educators, we are not fit to teach the man’s child, writes Sadtu official
13 January 2022 - 20:14
On January 12 the academic year kicked off in inland provinces. The reopening of schools happens as the basic education department advises us that, in the past 24 months or so, we have lost about 700,000 pupils from the system, possibly due to Covid-19, among other reasons. Due to the pandemic, the system has also lost a number of education workers...
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