As part of our pre-SoNA campaign, ActionSA will for the next week crisscross South Africa to highlight issues with unequal access to quality education facing communities across the country and engage with South Africans to find solutions for the country’s education crisis.
During this campaign, I as well and the 9 Provincial Chairpersons and public representatives will be asking the public to engage us on issues relating to education, crime and corruption, Eskom, infrastructure and the Economy – and find solutions on how to address them.
We have identified Access to Quality Education as our first focal issue as ActionSA believes that quality education is South Africa’s best hope of creating a more equitable and prosperous society.
During this week we will be talking to education experts, School Governing Bodies, principals, parents and students alike to address some of the most pressing issues affecting learners in this country as kids return to school and we anticipate the announcement of the Matric Results for 2023.
On Monday morning, ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Bongani Baloyi, visited Selang Primary on the outskirts of Hammanskraal where the Gauteng Education Department failed to maintain infrastructure, and raw sewerage was seen running in front of the school.
In the Northern Cape, ActionSA’s Provincial Chairperson, Andrew Louw, visited the district offices of the Department of Education in Kimberley to highlight how parents are struggling to register their children at the start of the school year.
On Tuesday, ActionSA KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Chairperson, Zwakele Mncwango, will visit Ntuzuma in Durban where Bhekisisa High School faces issues of a shortage of teachers and poor infrastructure.
ActionSA Limpopo Provincial Chairperson, Sello Lediga, will on Wednesday visit Mohwibidu Primary School to ensure that pit latrines have been removed, and ActionSA’s Free State Provincial Chairperson, Patricia Kopane, will visit schools in Welkom which are overrun with sewerage. Kwena Mangope, ActionSA Provincial Chairperson for the North West Province will be going to assess the situation relating to overcrowded schools when some schools in the area appear to be abandoned and stand vacant.
On Friday, ActionSA Mpumalanga Provincial Chairperson, Thoko Mashiane, will visit schools in Nelspruit to highlight how political infighting has caused delays to repair schools in the region. This, while ActionSA Western Cape Provincial Chairperson, Michelle Wasserman, has already begun to engage the Western Cape Department of Education about there being no high school in Prince Albert forcing parents and learners to assume the costs of educating their kids in Beaufort West which is wholly unsustainable.
Ensuring that all South Africans have access to quality education is one of ActionSA’s guiding principles.
If we want to achieve access to quality education, we must professionalise and streamline the administrative management of our schools, divert more resources directly to front-line service providers, enhance the role school supervisors play in ensuring schools perform to higher standards and maximise students’ learning time.
Improving the educational system must be accompanied by an integrated infrastructure development programme that provides our communities, and thus learners, with the tools and facilities they need to enhance their educational outcomes.
These solutions are all possible but require political will to serve the interests of all South Africans and their future, and not the narrow interests of the ANC and politically connected teachers’ unions. We know that the ANC does not have this political will, and ActionSA is ready to step in once the ANC is removed from power in 2024.
SONA Public Engagement Campaign: ActionSA Highlights Education Crisis Facing SA
As part of our pre-SoNA campaign, ActionSA will for the next week crisscross South Africa to highlight issues with unequal access to quality education facing communities across the country and engage with South Africans to find solutions for the country’s education crisis.
During this campaign, I as well and the 9 Provincial Chairpersons and public representatives will be asking the public to engage us on issues relating to education, crime and corruption, Eskom, infrastructure and the Economy – and find solutions on how to address them.
We have identified Access to Quality Education as our first focal issue as ActionSA believes that quality education is South Africa’s best hope of creating a more equitable and prosperous society.
During this week we will be talking to education experts, School Governing Bodies, principals, parents and students alike to address some of the most pressing issues affecting learners in this country as kids return to school and we anticipate the announcement of the Matric Results for 2023.
On Monday morning, ActionSA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Bongani Baloyi, visited Selang Primary on the outskirts of Hammanskraal where the Gauteng Education Department failed to maintain infrastructure, and raw sewerage was seen running in front of the school.
In the Northern Cape, ActionSA’s Provincial Chairperson, Andrew Louw, visited the district offices of the Department of Education in Kimberley to highlight how parents are struggling to register their children at the start of the school year.
On Tuesday, ActionSA KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Chairperson, Zwakele Mncwango, will visit Ntuzuma in Durban where Bhekisisa High School faces issues of a shortage of teachers and poor infrastructure.
ActionSA Limpopo Provincial Chairperson, Sello Lediga, will on Wednesday visit Mohwibidu Primary School to ensure that pit latrines have been removed, and ActionSA’s Free State Provincial Chairperson, Patricia Kopane, will visit schools in Welkom which are overrun with sewerage. Kwena Mangope, ActionSA Provincial Chairperson for the North West Province will be going to assess the situation relating to overcrowded schools when some schools in the area appear to be abandoned and stand vacant.
On Friday, ActionSA Mpumalanga Provincial Chairperson, Thoko Mashiane, will visit schools in Nelspruit to highlight how political infighting has caused delays to repair schools in the region. This, while ActionSA Western Cape Provincial Chairperson, Michelle Wasserman, has already begun to engage the Western Cape Department of Education about there being no high school in Prince Albert forcing parents and learners to assume the costs of educating their kids in Beaufort West which is wholly unsustainable.
Ensuring that all South Africans have access to quality education is one of ActionSA’s guiding principles.
If we want to achieve access to quality education, we must professionalise and streamline the administrative management of our schools, divert more resources directly to front-line service providers, enhance the role school supervisors play in ensuring schools perform to higher standards and maximise students’ learning time.
Improving the educational system must be accompanied by an integrated infrastructure development programme that provides our communities, and thus learners, with the tools and facilities they need to enhance their educational outcomes.
These solutions are all possible but require political will to serve the interests of all South Africans and their future, and not the narrow interests of the ANC and politically connected teachers’ unions. We know that the ANC does not have this political will, and ActionSA is ready to step in once the ANC is removed from power in 2024.