Educators are the builders of this continent Let no learner, teacher or parent die! by Comrade Mema*, 25 February 2017 I am a South African who knows a little history about the struggle of South Africans against Apartheid. Many, many, South Africans fled our country from the scourge of Apartheid, and sought and found refuge across African States. When liberation came, I remember, we would watch TV and see big numbers of South Africans coming back home. At times it would be unbelievable to see how many people fled this country, to start a new life elsewhere, and came back expanded - married, having a family. It was a joy to be united with your long lost brother, or sister, some matured when they left as teenagers. We embraced each other with so much love and great joy. It used to be like it's a party, all over South Africa. Some died in exile. Many, many, many returned. It shows that Africans are a loving people, by nature. We are created to be communal, as Africans. Presently, we have foreign nationals with whom we teach in our schools. We have learners in our classrooms whom we are teaching to pronounce Afrikaans words correctly. The department of education has embraced foreign languages to be accepted in order for a matric candidate to obtain a university entrance pass, as long as that subject can be well passed, same, status as the other subjects. Our schools have programmes running for the current year, all learners and teachers involved in those programmes, EQUALLY. South African and Foreign nationals are teachers in the same schools, talking the same vision and mission statement. In fact, we in the education sector ARE the builders of this continent, irrespective of how much other sectors can look down upon education. We in education are the Future, no matter how little a teacher makes at the end of each month. Begin to appreciate the joy of any teacher, who records the daily improvement of each learner in his/her class among the other successes. Begin to appreciate the inner joy of a teacher who communicates with a passed learner who keeps contact long after they have parted to say: "Mam, I am an ambassador of Nigeria in such a country because of the basic education I obtained in South Africa. Thank u." Or any other country for that matter. Those who are propagating war, why are they doing this? Why do they want to disturb a programme that is steady, but surely building our continent? Why do they want to disturb the lunch hour that I spend every day with my colleague who is a Nigerian national? We are ONE. What makes you think that your mission is better than ours? When you fight, please MAKE SURE that no South African teacher who is a South African or a Nigerian national dies. Make sure that no learner who is either a Nigerian or South African national dies. Make sure that in all schools, no learner is reported absent on Monday because the parent died in a Mall, Nigerian, or, South African. Give us all the rightful opportunity to build this Continent. Please pass this on to as many Nigerians and South Africans as you know. *Comrade Mema, Teacher and SADTU East Rand Region member, Gauteng, South Africa Published by the Communist University __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14995 (20170225) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d28f86%2447189a30%24d549ce90%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
