Ordinary citizens have not forgotten that schools were failing before the virus crisis.
It has been interesting to observe over the past weeks since Covid-19 came to our shores, how some people suddenly think that we live in a different country. Suddenly we live in a South Africa where everything is functioning well and all that kumbaya stuff.
We now see people who have been living in tents for years being provided with housing, communities that have been without water for decades suddenly having water tankers delivered to them. It is busy in the country. We are experiencing some of the service delivery that people have long been yearning for.
And so it should not be seen as unreasonable or too critical when people raise concerns about children returning to school, particularly those from rural and township schools. Parents, ordinary South Africans, are raising legitimate concerns that cannot be brushed off because the department says “we’ve got this”.
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