South Africa is two days into 2020 and the first school burns. The Tokelo High School in the Vaal Triangle lost four classrooms due to arson. Panyaza Lesufi, the MEC of Education in Gauteng, is disappointed with the R4 million damage done.
#TheAfricanWay – Another day, another black school burnt down – Black learners may now have (want) to get their education in traditionally white schools?
New school buildings may never come to black schools – too few trained black teachers to successfully teach learners – Black learners will be accommodated at other state institutions such as Afrikaans schools
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An educator told Die Vryburger that the possibility of enough schools and classrooms for South Africa’s learners will never come.
He points out that the black schools are overcrowded because there are not enough schools to accommodate them, but new schools will not address the big problem.
He says the biggest obstacle is the fact that there are not enough black teachers at all, and those who are in the classroom are not always well educated enough to successfully teach the learners so that they can be trained as teachers after school.
He said the black education crisis would not be resolved if the government did not focus on the training of many teachers.
The serious shortage can only be overcome with the establishment of education training colleges as South Africa has successfully conducted its education corps for many decades.
It makes no sense to set up new schools while there are no teachers who can staff the school, he s
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