SACPblackStar.jpg SACP Western Cape Province Media Statement, 7 January 2016 Privatisation of Public Schools by the Western Cape Government As the South African Communist Party, we strongly condemn the idea of commodifying our education system by annexing public schools and delivering them into the hands of profit-driven consortiums. The privatisation of our education system has been presented as a collaboration between the provincial government, the community and private consortiums. This ploy by the WCED is nothing more than the implementation of neoliberal policy, policy that will ignore and censor the community, parents, teachers and workers say in the governance of the school. Developing young minds must be done in the context of societal needs and not profit margins and annual performance results. Our comrades in SADTU, and SACP branch leaders, have provided first-hand experiences of how these "Collaboration Schools" have been bulldozed in. With no proper consultation and comprehensive explanation - parents, teachers and workers have been at the receiving end of this ploy. This attitude and behaviour is symptomatic of the WCED, under Donald Grant poor schools were arbitrarily closed down. In honouring comrade Joe Slovo, together with our communities, SADTU and COSAS - the SACP will mobilise and direct all its energy to fight against the commodification of our education system. The SACP commits to ensure that our education remains under the control of the people and that the people guide the development of our youth. As the SACP we reiterate our call that the Western Cape Provincial Department of Education to immediately prioritise the challenges facing working class learners in the Province in the context of the travesty of the legacy of Apartheid that continues to perpetuate socio-economic difficulties in institutions of learning, and now, as a direct result of the DA Governments regressive policies of targeting working class schools to generate profit. Issued by SACP Western Cape Contact: Masonwabe Sokoyi - SACP Western Cape Provincial Spokesperson Cell: 0815846138/ 0765243242 Office: 021 696 2522 Fax: 086 558 2481 Twitter: @SACPWC Facebook: SACP Western Cape Email : <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] -- -- 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.
