SADTU Teachers at Work, with logo, smaller.png SADTU Statement, 26 June 2015 Gauteng MEC's action against Racism The South African Democratic Teachers' Union welcomes and fully supports measures taken by the MEC for Education in Gauteng, Honourable Panyaza Lesufi, following incidents of racism in schools. It remains our firm position that racism must be eliminated where it raised its ugly head. Those who still pursue this backward practice must be exposed and dealt with decisively. Clearly the management of Curro Foundation School has no interest in building a non-racial society in South Africa. Thus the removal of those responsible for perpetuating racism is appropriate. Further, the conditions set for the school to change its operations, failing which the school's license will be withdrawn, is commendable. We are equally outraged by continued acts of racism at Roodeport Primary school despite several interventions and once more call upon the MEC to take appropriate decisive steps against those involved in this barbaric act which has led to the unfortunate closure of the school and thereby wasting valuable irrecoverable learning and teaching time. We call on the MEC to fast-track the enquiry into racism and further that the Minister of Basic Education Honourable Angie Motshekga to institute a national enquiry into racism so that it is addressed comprehensively. We also reiterate our long standing call on government to review funding of independent schools as we believe that education is a public good and should therefore not be privatised. Issued by SADTU Contacts: Tseliso Ledimo, Provincial Secretary, 082 459 4737 Dudu Nkosi, Provincial Deputy Secretary, 082 459 4743 -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
