President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered opening remarks at the Bana Pele Early Childhood Development Leadership Summit on Monday, where he admitted past failures in education reform.
He then went on to say; “We should have closed all schools for two years, take the educators to re-educate centres, have them re-educated so that they are now ready to teach the children properly.
“Yes the children would have run around the streets without any education for 2 years but that would have gained us a lot of time to be able to reform our education system.”
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South Africans were quick to respond with their thoughts:
@Lady_Bee.
CLOSE PARLIAMENT FOR 2 YEARS. SEND ALL POLITICIANS TO SCHOOL TO LEARN , HONESTY, INTEGRITY, COMPLETE THEIR STUDIES, NO MORE FAKE QUALIFICATIONS
So we send teachers WHERE? To the same people that taught them wrong? What an admission of total failure, political incompetence and ignorance.
@ShawdyBrowns
honestly they should have thought of this during lockdown
@Marianne
His so-called solution is not well thought out at all. Who thinks of these things? Ridiculous. He wants to cripple the economy even more. How he became wealthy other than corruption is a mystery.
@Mrs_J
I still want my salary and housing allowance and increase each year for those two years.
@mihller_savage:
hayyy close schools for what???😭😭....ohhh it's because kaloku your kids are done with school neh - we want to finish school
Although Cyril Ramaphosa's wife and children prefer to keep a low profile, we do know this about their education - and doubt very much that they would have spent two years “playing in the streets” while growing up.
Tumela Ramophosa - Master's in International Business from the Hult International Business School in San Francisco.
Andile Ramaphosa - Bachelors degree in accounting and statistics from University of Cape Town
Keneilwe Ramaphosa (also known as Kiki) - Bachelor of Architectural Science from the University of Cape Town and a Master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Mashudu Ramaphosa studied at the University of Cape Town.
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