cde castro These are good news and they are welcomed by the Neglected Northern Cape province. We are of the believe that this budget will be evenly spread amongst all deserving provinces. In the previous financial year we were faced by a situation whereby the Provincial C.F.O overspent the departments budget with more than R700 million, our province has more temp teacher's than any other province, it is quite obvious that we need these practitioners permanently but still our education dept bluntly refuses to put these guyz on the departments payroll system as full time employees.
Second to this is the long outstanding issue around a university, its quite dissapointing that 15 years in democracy still this province does nt have a fully fletched UNIVERSITY. This is the same issue that oppositions used as a campaigning tool against ANC, Especially COPE, hence they became the main opposition in the province. Guess wu gave them these votes, obviously it should be our parents, i mean these folks knows how crucial education is to the lives of their children, why do we hav to be the only province that has to send our kids to other provinces to further their education. What is the result of that, our parents have to pay tuition fees, transport fee, accomodation and food which does not come cheap. To date we have more then 3000 matriculants yearly who are sitting home only because the parents do not hav enough money to cover the above mentioned expenses. All of this has led to tertiary education being afforded only by middle and and high income earners, marginalising the remainder once more. These matters hav been raised before, but this time around let the forum ensure that we engage on these issues and the respective department delivers accordingly cde Zero NC Province On 7/1/09, Castro Ngobese <[email protected]> wrote: > *YCLSA welcomes Governments commitments to Free Education for the Poor!* > > *01 July 2009* > > The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] notes and welcomes the > Budget Speech tabled by the Minister of Higher Education & Training and SACP > General Secretary Cde Blade Nzimande. The YCLSA is excited by Cde Nzimande’s > commitment in broadening access to higher education for the poor students in > sync with the ANC Alliance elections manifesto and the Freedom Charter. > > We are excited that there will be a major focus and improvement of > infrastructure in the former historically disadvantaged institutions of > higher learning. Over the past 15 years of higher education transformation, > institutions of higher learning have been used to maintain and reproduce the > racial, class and gender apartheid legacy inequalities. > > The Budget Speech as tabled by Cde Nzimande is a major departure from this > apartheid inclined and neo-liberal approach to higher education > transformation towards achieving people’s education as envisaged in the > Freedom Charter. > > The YCLSA is also excited by the following commitments made by the Minister > of Higher Education & Training Cde Nzimande; > > · The allocation of R2,144 Billion to the National Students > Financial Aid Scheme; > > · The establishment of a coherent college sector and which includes > 50 Further Education Training Colleges; > > · The increase of student enrolment in Further Education and > Training colleges to at least 1 million by 2015; > > · The allocation of R1, 462 Billion for improving teaching, learning > and residence infrastructure and academic efficiency. > > The YCLSA believes that these commitments make a firm and solid foundation > for the attainment of people’s education and achieving the noble goals of > the struggle of the martyrs of June 16. > > As the YCLSA we will engage the Minister of Higher Education Cde Nzimande to > solicit his views on the expansion of higher education in the country. > Therefore the establishment of Universities and Colleges is very key and > critical in our country. The out-gone Minister of Education Naledi Pandor > had earlier warned government that by 2010 South Africa will not have the > capacity to absorb the growing influx of students. > > Issued by YCLSA Head Office > > 1 – 5 Leyds Street, COSATU Hse, Braamfontein > > Contact: > > *Castro Ngobese* > > *YCLSA National Spokesperson – 082 567 3557* > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
