Cape Town wants emptier roads – This is how it’s going to make it happen

Brawler said:
No offense but I am not sure how you can not know this? It was a thing when I was in school 20 years ago even and it is getting more strict with Bela act admissions policy.

If the area is mainly white they would cap the white kids and take non-white kids from further away (sometimes much further away).

This isn't the thread to discuss redress but from a full roads perspective - it makes matters worse.
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All schools in my area prioritise the catchment area. It is in the policies.
 
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Brawler said:
No offense but I am not sure how you can not know this? It was a thing when I was in school 20 years ago even and it is getting more strict with Bela act admissions policy.

If the area is mainly white they would cap the white kids and take non-white kids from further away (sometimes much further away).

This isn't the thread to discuss redress but from a full roads perspective - it makes matters worse.
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I wish it was that simple, I would not have had to sell my fully paid up township house and move to a former white suburb, which I am still paying off.

The 2 reasons I moved: Did not want my daughter in a township school. An incident where a druggie/gangster tried to smashed the window with a knife at the back passenger where my then 4year old daughter was sitting.

It is not as easy to get in the former model c schools without living in the neighbourhoods, at least for non connected people of colour.
 
Nerfherder said:
yes.

In the sense that they have to apply national quota's for learners.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with your kid, just that others do get de-prioritised based on the colour of their skin.
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racist motherfuckers is what they are. It's just polished as 'quotas'.
 
Brawler said:
Whose policies?
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The schools, aligned with WCED.

To quote you a policy, this is Parel Vallei's admission policy:

Adopted by the Governing Body in terms of Section 5(5) of the South African Schools Act No. 84 of 1996

Only learners who reside in the area defined as “Metropole East” by the Western Cape Education Department will be considered. Preference will be given to learners who reside within the following area: from Kirkia street in the North, in an easterly path along the Somerset West Main road, up to the “Old Bridge”. From there, in a north-easterly direction following the Lourensford river, up to the Vergelegen gates. From this point, the municipal boundary all along the foothills of the Helderberg mountain up to and including Bel’aire. (Preference will be based upon the ranking on our admissions questionnaire as provided by the school which the learner currently attends.)
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I can quote schools in Paarl, Stellenbosch, Helderberg, etc. They all have this.

What does happen is that when people do their admission registrations, that they only list a single school (not always within their catchment area) or they list three schools which also aren't always in their catchment areas. Then their child or children do not get accepted, the window is closed, and then they want to know why their child or children did not get into their local schools.

This is an issue discussed at governing boards all the time.
 
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They have never even managed to extend the MyCITI into the southern suburbs, let alone the south peninsula and the only southern train line has stations at inconvenient locations with barely any parking available.

So, yeah, lecture me on using public transport when you actually have safe and convenient options available. At least this person seems to understand this: “We can only charge congestion tax when public transport is at its optimum,” said Quintas. Which most likely means effectively never, because we all know that any expansion to the MyCITI or rail infrastructure gets violently opposed by the violent taxi mob.
 
dontcryforme said:
Are you the guy driving 60kmph in the fast lane on the N1 in Midrand?
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Sure! I am however not someone in a Cayenne GTS busy reversing on the highway, with hazards on, like one often finds on CT N2, to then make a u-turn through the middle-barrier, right into the fast-lane of oncoming traffic.
 
LCBXX said:
Sure! I am however not someone in a Cayenne GTS busy reversing on the highway, with hazards on, like one often finds on CT N2, to then make a u-turn through the middle-barrier, right into the fast-lane of oncoming traffic.
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Ja these semi-migrators are making kak for all of us here in Cape Town.
 
LCBXX said:
CT-level driving has existed before Jan van Riebeeck. There's no explaining away the kakness of CT drivers IMO.
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We have per the DA the least corrupt driving licencing test centres in SA. Which if true, means that CPT drivers are overall safer drivers. Its the drivers from the areas where you buy your licence who end up working in CPT that is currently causing the kak.
 
rh1 said:
We have per the DA the least corrupt driving licencing test centres in SA. Which if true, means that CPT drivers are overall safer drivers. Its the drivers from the areas where you buy your licence who end up working in CPT that is currently causing the kak.
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If CT drivers were so not-kak, Alan Winde would be WEF chairman. Alas, he's just the Premier of our kak-driving capital.

EDIT: The CT Mayor literally wants to remove most of you from the controls of a vehicle, citing "congestion". Read between the lines, man!
 
LCBXX said:
JHB/Pretoria's roads are just as congested.

The difference is the in drivers. All Capetonians drive like shiit, every single one of you. Good God.
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akescpt said:
ja its not just reserved for wet weather anymore...
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I got back from the Free State a week ago, 10 minutes into Cape Town, after driving around 1 000 km in total for the day, I started swearing for the first time on the road. Arseholes sleeping in the overtaking lane and a lot of people with zero situational awareness.
 
rh1 said:
I wish it was that simple, I would not have had to sell my fully paid up township house and move to a former white suburb, which I am still paying off.

The 2 reasons I moved: Did not want my daughter in a township school. An incident where a druggie/gangster tried to smashed the window with a knife at the back passenger where my then 4year old daughter was sitting.

It is not as easy to get in the former model c schools without living in the neighbourhoods, at least for non connected people of colour.
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Yes, I think we are all in that boat. The schools can only take so many kids.

and this is not even OT as our area has been earmarked for densification. So without improving any of the infrastructure they are knocking down houses to build flats with 4+ stories.
Same roads, same schools, same **** pipes.
 
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Nerfherder said:
Yes, I think we are all in that boat. The schools can only take so many kids.

and this is not even OT as our area has been earmarked for densification. So without improving any of the infrastructure they are knocking down houses to build flats with 4+ stories.
Same roads, same schools, same **** pipes.
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DA is just interested in taxes increasing. No interest in building more infrastructure.
 
rh1 said:
DA is just interested in taxes increasing. No interest in building more infrastructure.
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I can't argue with that.

I still think its better than some of the other strategies being deployed in other provinces.. but cynical nevertheless.
 
LCBXX said:
If CT drivers were so not-kak, Alan Winde would be WEF chairman. Alas, he's just the Premier of our kak-driving capital.

EDIT: The CT Mayor literally wants to remove most of you from the controls of a vehicle, citing "congestion". Read between the lines, man!
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Dude, did not vote DA, I would vote FF+ before I vote DA.
 
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