School probed over ’no black teachers’

[Fulcrum29]

Nina Hastie to the DA: 'Please go start your own country'

Imagine a country with no DA!

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Nina Hastie to the DA: 'Please go start your own country'​

Comedian Nina Hastie wants the DA to “start their own country” after the political party “failed to address the real issue” regarding the clashes that took place at Brackenfell High School in Cape Town earlier this week.

Nina like many social media users took to Twitter to call out the DA for not showing equality and missing the mark on the issue at hand.

This after the ruling party in the Western Cape took to Twitter to “condemn in the strongest terms the ongoing threatening attempts by the EFF to bend society to its will by interfering where it has absolutely no business to be”.

Feeling that the DA wasn't being fair in addressing the issue, Nina asked the DA to “go start their own country because this country is for all South Africans ... where people are treated with dignity”.

She also called them out for not having enough black leaders in the party.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Nina Hastie to the DA: 'Please go start your own country'

Imagine a country with no DA!

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Ag shem...iemand soek aandag.

Tsek

 

[Milano]

Of course not and of course they will act like the degenerates they are...it does not excuse anyone to lash out at a woman that is walking away from you without being a direct threat!

I don't understand why this is so damn hard to comprehend people? That guy with the baseball bat is 100% wrong in what he did and he should be thrown in jail! All this does is stoke the fire even more and look how well that ended for everyone in Senekal!

Well of course it is wrong to assault people. However if you intentionally provoke people you are likely to be assaulted. Not saying it is right, it is just a reality.

 

[dj2381]

Nina Hastie to the DA: 'Please go start your own country'

Imagine a country with no DA!

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Who dat? Never in my life heard of this one.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Ag shem...iemand soek aandag.

Tsek

She is most definitely not from Cape Town or the Western Cape for that matter of fact. Yes, imagine a South Africa without the DA. The FF+ would have been declared a terrorist organisation a long time ago and the ANC, thinking about it the EFF wouldn't have existed if the DA never existed... Imagine a country pledged to the ANC.

 

[Craig_]

Of course they would have Alice.

Rambo was a brave fighter, not a weak snowflake.

 

[RonSwanson]

Yeah saw the video and that POS had no reason to hit a freaking woman with a baseball bat!! I hope they throw the book at him!

What an absolute p03s

She should provide a statement of her injuries from a qualified doctor, or two to be sure.

 

[krieg]

Anyone here from brackenfell?

Quite a few forumites.

 

[Tokolotshe]

Who dat? Never in my life heard of this one.

Exactly, the point: now you have.

It took a leaked video to make the Khardasians (not a fan).

 

[rambo919]

Who dat? Never in my life heard of this one.

She does look funny.... just not in the way she wants to.....

 

[Tokolotshe]

I wouldn't worry about Rambo if I were you, I am more worried about the members who liked his comments.

Hey, as head of the Boerebond, a white liberal capitalist, a born millionaire, racist, a Trumpite ... (add labels here), I have to support him and protect my own. The ANC won't, Juliarse & Co never. Mmusi & Herman pulled the R-card ... it's now pack vs pack.

Tbh, I'd be more worried if you ever had anything good to say about us. So I take it as another badge of honor.

 

[rambo919]

Tbh, I'd be more worried if you ever had anything good to say about us. So I take it as another badge of honor.

I for one take proud in being crowned the dogwhistle mascot of the radical far alt-right nazi conspiracy, we really need a better name though.....

 

[Fulcrum29]

Brackenfell High pupils use Instagram page to speak out on racism, discrimination

Many current and former pupils from Brackenfell High School have spoken out in recent months – both to school authorities and on social media – about the racism and discrimination they faced while at school.

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Brackenfell High pupils use Instagram page to speak out on racism, discrimination​

Cape Town – An Instagram page dedicated to sharing the experiences of Brackenfell High School pupils provides a shocking glimpse into the racism experienced by many current and former pupils at the school.

Earlier this year, in the wake of the global #BlackLivesMatter movement, pupils from across Cape Town exposed what they deem blatant racism experienced at the hands of staff and fellow pupils at private and former Model C schools.

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I won't be surprised that this will result in a new school program, 'understanding your privilege workshops'. This is already done at some companies.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Western Cape Education Department promotes racism in schools

Western Cape Education Department promotes racism in schools​

By Dr Wesley Seale

Violent videos on social media these days are popular. The videos of the racist attacks on people at Brackenfell High School were no different.

Soon these videos were flooding our phones and our social media timelines.

According to media reports, the EFF marched on the school after a private matric function was attended by only white learners and their parents.

We are also told that the school’s staff complement has not been reflective of the demographics of the province, and even less so of the country; this, 26 years after the dawn of our democracy.

The protests in Brackenfell happened on Monday. The previous Saturday, a group of organisations and individuals sat down to a fundraiser dinner under the banner of the Progressive Organisations’ Formation. This, too, was a protest of sorts. While the protests in Brackenfell sought to address the symptoms of racism within our provincial education system, the dinner in Bellville endeavoured to raise funds in order to take on the provincial Education Department for pursuing its racist project within our education system.

Standing firmly behind Heathfield High School principal Wesley Neumann, the Progressive Organisations’ Formation realises that in their pursuit of defending Neumann, who simply sought to protect his pupils against Covid-19, they were taking on the edifice of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and the systematic racist agenda the provincial department has been pursuing.

There should be little doubt that the case against Wesley Neumann is a political one.

He dared to take on the WCED and go against their instruction to call learners back to school at a time when schools across the globe were closing, given the threat of Covid-19.

Brackenfell, like the incidents at San Souci, Rustenberg Girls’ High, Malibu High School and so many other episodes of racism at our schools in the Western Cape, is only symptomatic of the systemic racism promoted by the WCED.

Predominantly poorer schools are targeted and treated to different standards than former Model C or white schools.

Yet the real fight comes in the availability of resources and organisation to tackle the structural racism that is actively pursued by the current political leadership at the Western Cape Education Department.

A flare-up is easy. The real challenge comes in consistent and co-ordinated challenges to the WCED; especially legal ones.

The two protests are very different. The one makes a noise, makes headlines for a day and gets its videos to go viral.

In a week, the sensationalist occurrences, as horrifying as they are and which must be condemned, will no longer be in the news.

Instead, the other protest, which is quieter, slower and which takes daily blood, sweat, toil and tears to pursue, will continue.

Yet it is the latter which must be supported if we want to see real change in education in the Western Cape.

Veteran educationalist Brian Isaacs, secretary of the Progressive Organisations’ Formation, is a thorn in the side of the WCED.

Together with a number of educators and parents, he has only one thing in mind: ensuring our children, no matter what their background, receive a good quality education.

A racist WCED is not going to provide that kind of education to our children.

It is time that we think better of our way of protesting. The time for violent confrontation, whether person-on-person or person-on-property, must come to an end.

We cannot continue to protest on an ad hoc basis. Instead, we must organise and ensure that we change our society through the democratic means available to our communities.

Voters must realise the link between voting in a party that perpetuates past prejudice and the targeting of leaders in our society, like Wesley Neumann, who dare to take them on.

Unless we tackle the systemic racism and systematic targeting by the WCED, the violent videos will sadly continue to flood our phones.

Dr Wesley Seale taught politics at the University of the Western Cape and Rhodes University

Huh?

Just note that this article is forced into Microsoft's news feed, many people will see this promoted in their news tile today without the mention of opinion.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Brackenfell High pupils use Instagram page to speak out on racism, discrimination

Many current and former pupils from Brackenfell High School have spoken out in recent months – both to school authorities and on social media – about the racism and discrimination they faced while at school.

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I won't be surprised that this will result in a new school program, 'understanding your privilege workshops'. This is already done at some companies.

Critical Race Theory here we come...

Thanks Biden...thanks Kamala...thanks AOC.......

 

[dualmeister]

Anyone here from brackenfell?

Lived there for almost 10 years. About 3 blocks from the Highschool.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Western Cape Education Department promotes racism in schools

Huh?

Just note that this article is forced into Microsoft's news feed, many people will see this promoted in their news tile today without the mention of opinion.

The blatant fukking lying in the press these days....holy schit. You can literally say whatever the fuk you want.

But "allegedly" has to be used when there's been a crime...

dis om van te kots hoor.

 

[Tokolotshe]

I for one take proud in being crowned the dogwhistle mascot of the radical far alt-right nazi conspiracy, we really need a better name though.....

PoKlaVel?

 

[Fulcrum29]

Critical Race Theory here we come...

Thanks Biden...thanks Kamala...thanks AOC.......

I thought the left hated Critical Race Theory? It is advocated against in the USA by the left, and we had the case at UCT where Critical Race Theory was condemned. At the end of the day as always, it is all pending on whom is applying Critical Race Theory.

I didn't make that final comment by sucking it out of my thumb, a workshop was suggested by the SAHRC.

 

[Tokolotshe]

The blatant fukking lying in the press these days....holy schit. You can literally say whatever the fuk you want.

But "allegedly" has to be used when there's been a crime...

dis om van te kots hoor.

This **** sells. Good news = bad news ito revenue, bad news = profit. Breaking news? No matter, we fix it by fanning it. Why do you think News24 put it behind a pay wall?