'Nationalise private schools'

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I don't know why nonsense like this gets published. Their 'demands' are about as smart as taking a shower after you had sex with a person with AIDS. (hence their support for Zuma)

When people in this country will stop expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter, things might get better. But until that time... let's get creative ideas like 'nationalising private schools.' Laughable.
 
Statements like this make me worry about the future of our country. I can not believe that the youth of today are so stupid.
 
Shouldn't they lobby to at least get the current public schools up to speed, rather than trying to pull private schools to that level? Common sense seems to be not so common, never mind plain old logic.
 
this is Africa...
"we WANT it, GIVE it to us, we DEMAND"...
how about : WORK to improve public schools and PAY for the services...
they are pulling their schemes and "militant action" on the ANC, the same as they did on the apartheid government
maybe we will see another Hector Pieterson on the 16th...
 
protzkrog said:
this is Africa...
"we WANT it, GIVE it to us, we DEMAND"...
how about : WORK to improve public schools and PAY for the services...
they are pulling their schemes and "militant action" on the ANC, the same as they did on the apartheid government
maybe we will see another Hector Pieterson on the 16th...
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A little history may help to answer this issue.

There were two sides in the ANC.

One side wanted war but the other side, led by Mandela, sold them out when he negotiated with the Nats while he was in prison.

The warmongers of the ANC did not even know what was happening until it was too late.

They are simply reasserting themselves now.
 
So now the private schools can also be vandalised and broken down.....
This is one of the most ridiculous ideas yet.:(
 
seriously who is cosas? a bunch of nobodies. this comes down to the lack of a free media in south africa, johnic and naspers love publishing this drivel from nobody organisations in order to generate fear.
 
Please copy and paste, I can't seem to get the article :(
 
'Nationalise private schools'
07/03/2007 21:35 - (SA)

Johannesburg - The African National Congress-led government had failed the nation by not providing free education in all public schools, said the Congress of SA Students (Cosas) on Wednesday.

"Cosas demands that all private schools be nationalised and further demands the provision of free education in all public schools," said Cosas president Kenny Motshegoa after the students' national executive committee meeting last week.

"We demand scrapping of school fees, history to be a compulsory subject and a productive working-class-perspective curriculum."

Motshegoa said the NEC meeting assessed the education and political situation in the country.

Motshegoa said: "The NEC noted that the no-fee school strategy was an act of running away from responsibility to provide adequate resources by the government, as it does not address the basic requirements in our schools."

The students also called for an increase in the age limit for consumption of liquor to the age of 21.

Want to influence ANC policy

"We demand that the liquor industry must provide rehabilitation centres in all districts of the country as part of their social responsibility to those prepared to quit, and focused programmes must be funded to achieve awareness of the need for the youth to refrain from the abuse of liquor."

They also called for the involvement of students in the fight against HIV/Aids.

Motshegoa said the students also decided to influence the policy of the ANC and that of the government.

Cosas would recommend the extension of school nutrition to high schools, business ownership by students, free education, nationalisation of private schools, provision of a single school uniform nationally, and safety in schools.

'National day of militant action'

The students also re-affirmed their support for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma as future president of the party and the country.

Motshegoa said the NEC had declared March 16 as a national day of militant action against the department of education in demand of free and compulsory education.
 
simple_simon said:
seriously who is cosas? a bunch of nobodies. this comes down to the lack of a free media in south africa, johnic and naspers love publishing this drivel from nobody organisations in order to generate fear.
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Ja, I think you're right except its more of a case of johnic and co. have noticed that they sell more papers when they scare white people.

I mean cosas? Wtf now?

Its like every time some left over rerject in the disintergrating ANCYL mutters some garbage okes froth at the mouth about how stupid they are. Well duh. Even Zuma doesn't take that lot seriously ffs.

Cosas is even less important on the political scene than the ANCYL, so chill dudes.
 
In my experience, the leadership of COSAS are 20 year old idiots in their 3rd year of matric.

Thumbs down to news24 for putting this on the front page. It's like news24 putting up a front page story with comments from MyADSL saying we're going to blow up Telkom's South Tower if we don't get free broadband. Ridiculous.
 
The people who make these statements are our future leaders. They're trying to implement the Freedom Charter.
 
protzkrog said:
"...a productive working-class-perspective curriculum."
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Why? How is a working-class curriculum different from a white-collar curriculum. This is ridiculous. Every student who wants to be a productive part of the western world should have a liberal arts education. That is the gold standard to shoot for. This jusnk sounds like it came out of a U.S. liberal school policy handbook.
 
/me rolls around on the floors and pees myself laughing...

This has to be one of the stupidest demands I've heard from these organisations yet...
 
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