When Angie Motshekga barks that schools will open – if you don’t like it, let your child stay at home, or words to that effect – it’s really nothing new. This is the modus operandi characteristic of contemporary SA leadership, writes Phakamisa Mayaba
It was bound to happen. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga would get it the worst.
Bone-chilling news reports that France has had to shut down more than 600 schools in the wake of a spike in Covid-19 coronavirus infections are not helping. It speaks of enduring class schisms. The white elephant of an elitist government often accused of having taken the finger off the nation’s pulse is again brought to the fore.Images come up of overcrowded classrooms, textbooks that don’t arrive on time and feeding scheme budgets that run out midyear.Months after that incident, proper toilets had still not been put up at his school.
Crises are made up of unpopular decisions. Nelson Mandela, for one, is said to have been a grandmaster in this style of emotive leadership. That this is a slap in the face of the impoverished learner with no means to home schooling and water off a duck’s back to his middle class counterpart says more about government’s posture on socioeconomics than anything else.
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