No books, no education

 

What is happening to this free education...

During the past few months it has been reported that there are schools around the province who have not yet recieved textbooks for their pupils. It is extremely shocking to know that this issue is only raised now halfway through the academic year, were these same textbook not meant to be a fundamental foundation to guide these pupils and serve as a platform to the introduction of the curriculum.

Education is an essential privilege to each and

every individual regardless of who you are and

image above: A large number of textbooks found dumped in Limpopo

where you hail from.The state is forever preaching the gospel of the importance of education but they are the ones that are denying society the access to basic education.

Half of the academic year has already gone passed I tend to wonder what these victimised schools have been using as study material thus far.

image: Basic education minister Angie motshekga

Controversy is yet again to prevail as to who is going to find themselves responsible for this saga. The first perpetrator being basic minister of education Angie Motshekga, is it not her sole duty to ensure that these textbooks are administered to schools in time. She has now adopted the style of establishing a hotline for the schools to call on so that she can determine the number of schools that are still left without textbooks. This will not in any change the fact that thousands os pupils are faced with a possiblity of having to repeat the a grade. This is yet another waste of time and money... Jacob Zuma also implemented a hotline and what did that hotline do for us? They should just own up to their mistakes and fix this mess.