The saga surrounding Laerskool Danie Malan and the Gauteng education department’s attempt to address it puts a spotlight on us, as Africans.
The department usurped admission power from schools; they determine who goes to what school. Now they have set up satellite wings linked to schools such as Danie Malan.
The department’s attempt to address the matter is a definite way of destroying a functioning school, overburdening Danie Malan as though that district does not have other schools. Functioning schools are being scapegoated to conceal the department’s weakness and timidity. Sadtu members do not have faith in their own work; they were among the first to send their children to suburban schools. I have yet to meet a Sadtu member teaching his own child.
The energy expended on fixing what is not broken in suburban schools would be better used in the townships. They need real transformation to stem the daily exodus of pupils.
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