Boer education, black education (Opinion)

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There was a racial commotion at the Laerskool Danie Malan, Pretoria, at the beginning of this school year. On SABC TV I saw two groups
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There was a racial commotion at the Laerskool Danie Malan, Pretoria, at the beginning of this school year. On SABC TV I saw two groups of angry parents, one white, one black, confronting each other outside the school gates. There was a heavy police presence, with guns and dogs. The EFF joined in.

I listened with interest to the arguments, often at the tops of their voices, of both sides, and found myself rather confused about the facts of the case. But it confirmed completely my earlier assessment that you cannot really understand South Africa’s problems unless you understand the history of our education under the Boers and under the blacks.

At Danie Malan Laerskool, the nominal cause of the uproar was that many black children had not been placed in the school this year. Spokesmen for the school claimed that this was because their parents had applied too late, when the school had already been filled. Some black parents said it was because the school was racist and didn’t want any more black children. One black parent said there was no racism at all at the school and that her daughter had been happy there for seven years.

There were different claims about who was in the catchment area (or “feeder zone”) for the school. Were there some mainly black schools nearby but black parents did not want their children to attend them? I don’t know. There were arguments about the language of instruction. The school had originally been Afrikaans only but now did some teaching in English. The black parents wanted more English teaching. Very significantly, I heard many white parents wanting to defend their culture, which one of them explained very emphatically meant, ‘our Boer culture’, but I heard no black parents wanting to defend their African culture. And certainly none of them wanted teaching in an African language. Quite the opposite. This is highly significant.
 
The EFF says that ‘Class allocations must reflect the demographics of the society and be in line with the country’s transformation agenda’. Well, then take the demographics of language. The percentages of home languages in South Africa are as follows: Zulu 24%; Xhosa 18%; Afrikaans 18%; Sesotho 9%; English 8%. Does the EFF want 24% of our schoolchildren to be taught in Zulu? Does it want twice as many schoolchildren taught in Afrikaans as in English? Surely it can’t possibly want all children to be taught in English, the colonial language, which is spoken as a first language by only 8% of the population? But apparently it does. So much for reflecting the demographics. “Transformation” means kicking out the whites. But if all the white teachers were kicked out of Laerskool Danie Malan and all the teachers were black, no EFF leaders would want to send their children there."

This is what transformation means today, it means as little as possible white, and as much as possible black.
White children needs to adapt to black culture, there is no such thing is meeting each other in the middle or creating a shared culture. If you only play with Afrikaans speaking children it means you've been raised as a racist but racist parents.
 
This is again a failure of government... They failed to build more schools and develop quality teachers. The "black" schools are overfilled and the facilities in a state of disrepair, teachers struggle to create an environment conductive of learning, where the "white" schools are generally well maintained with quality teachers... Obviously the "black" parents wants the best for their kids and want to force them into "proper" schools... The "white" parents does not want their kid's schools to become overfilled and is trying by all means to maintain the status quo... Yet they continue to vote for the corrupt ANC...
Vote for change and keep the politician accountable for failure... That is the only way to turn the country around. Stop blaming everything that is "white" for your failure to hold your leaders accountable for their failures of the last couple of decades...
Imagine how many schools could have been built with the R40 000 000 000 that the Guptas, with the help of the ANC cadres, stole from this country's coffers....
 
Anti-Chris said:
This is again a failure of government... They failed to build more schools and develop quality teachers. The "black" schools are overfilled and the facilities in a state of disrepair, teachers struggle to create an environment conductive of learning, where the "white" schools are generally well maintained with quality teachers... Obviously the "black" parents wants the best for their kids and want to force them into "proper" schools... The "white" parents does not want their kid's schools to become overfilled and is trying by all means to maintain the status quo... Yet they continue to vote for the corrupt ANC...
Vote for change and keep the politician accountable for failure... That is the only way to turn the country around. Stop blaming everything that is "white" for your failure to hold your leaders accountable for their failures of the last couple of decades...
Imagine how many schools could have been built with the R40 000 000 000 that the Guptas, with the help of the ANC cadres, stole from this country's coffers....
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Rough estmate, around 2.3 schools...

"How many schools could have been built with the R40 000 000 000 that the Guptas, with the help of the ANC cadres, stole from this country's coffers...."
 
EADC said:
The most important part and only worthwhile part to read.
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"I have heard arguments from parents of black children at elitist private schools that the schools did not respect their African culture (which is paradoxical because they sent their children there precisely because they wanted them to escape African culture)"

Black parents also want to defend and promote their culture, but it seems at the expense of others.
 
Is Boer education where they teach the kids the difference between “jean pants” and “a jean pant”?
What else makes it unique?
 
Phylax said:
But it confirmed completely my earlier assessment that you cannot really understand South Africa’s problems unless you understand the history of our education under the Boers and under the blacks.
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Dunno, I don't think you need to know much of that to understand the ANC leverages race for political footholds and has almost single-handedly depleted state coffers and failed to contribute to basic infrastructure (like schools).
 
EADC said:
The most important part and only worthwhile part to read.
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Yep would have to agree the article is mostly 'miss' and little 'hit'...
Where he does have a point is how the Afrikaner built their culture and had plans to continually expand their culture, unfortunately to the detriment of many non-Afrikaners sharing South Africa.
Given the current situation many non-Afrikaners find themselves in regarding schools for their children, especially in the dense urban areas, we can quickly surmise that the ANC had little, if any, cares to use education as a building block to solve SA's poverty problem. Danie Malan is one of the many schools that will be forced to transform their 'heritage'. Unfortunately for many, government just didn't care about creating new schools and now, many of the older Afrikaans Model C schools with be forced to either become dual-medium or transform into English only schools to cater for the influx of non-Afrikaans cultures that are more prevalent than ever in former Afrikaans neighborhoods.
 
Why on God's green earth are you relying upon a wagie paid for by the South African government to teach your kids about their culture?
 
"Spokesmen for the school claimed that this was because their parents had applied too late, when the school had already been filled. Some black parents said it was because the school was racist"

OK, so they applied late then.
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Phylax said:
"I have heard arguments from parents of black children at elitist private schools that the schools did not respect their African culture (which is paradoxical because they sent their children there precisely because they wanted them to escape African culture)"

Black parents also want to defend and promote their culture, but it seems at the expense of others.
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State schools should not be defending or promoting any culture.
 
RaptorSA said:
"Spokesmen for the school claimed that this was because their parents had applied too late, when the school had already been filled. Some black parents said it was because the school was racist"

OK, so they applied late then.
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Nope.
Wacist.
 
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