Improving the quality of education (Budget Speech)

We need to distinguish truly and with frank whether the billions of rands thrown into education yearly as a tool for improvement of education will really bring the results. I’m not overlooking the efforts deployed by Government, for that matter I commend Government on their moves. However, reality must not be overlooked.

Government needs to introduce ways to encourage young people to have interest in education. I don’t think or feel that all this money will create such interest. This requires an interesting curriculum that is responsive to the nature of things around the country and our societies. It should be direct and organised based on young people’s line of interest as well as that of the country. That is if we take seriously the notion of a better South Africa and a developed people of the country.

The curriculum required should also consider the interest of teachers, to ensure that they themselves play a role in encouraging scholars. Our education system requires to be redefined to better respond to the skills shortages, poverty, mental suppression faced by the masses of people in our society. This radical approach needs to be explored in order to maximise the interest of many poor South Africans, who will participate positively in change as well as economically aspire through less criminal activities.

Fancy buildings are merely a waste where there is no curriculum content that interests stakeholder in any institution, not just education. This is just but my view of how things should be, an Africanised curriculum content, that will capacitate Africans in becoming owners of their own means, not merely borrowers as well as supplicants to the west. In order for our country to gain Nation Dignity in the Global state, it requires a radical change.

I will remain in hope that our Government has bold ideas for the future of our country. Money will not buy, not this time.