Mon May 20 03:05:08 SAST 2013

Many disabled not at school

May 24, 2012 | Tebogo Monama Education Reporter | 9 comments

At least 400,000 disabled children of school-going age 'are not in the system'

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Mon May 20 03:05:08 SAST 2013 ::
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May 24, 2012

MommaC

Disabled people are treated worse than mongrels in SA. It really is heart breaking.

A plan may be to have the stream system for schooling so that able bodied children get to see that disabled children are not some kind of aberration.
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May 24, 2012

MPHOZEN

Everytime when something very important needs to be accomplished money is mentioned to be an impediment. As the Goverment, when are we going stop attaching monetary value to something so important like taking care of our disabled learners? This is really a banana republic. I now agree.
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May 24, 2012

sabza007

.....................''They have already been paid R4.6-million. It is unclear when construction will resume''......

Bullshit ! How were they paid this R4.6m . At what stage is this school.How were the drawings approved by the Chief Engineer if there was no provision for ramps and disabled toilets. I smell a dead rat here.

On one of the projects that I am doing , the Quantity Surveyor certified 70% payment of contract value to the contractor when the construction was only at 30% !!! I
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May 24, 2012

Naivegirl

"Gauteng education spokesman Charles Phahlane said the hardest thing with running full-service school was funding."
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But we can afford to give Cuba R350 Million. This government should be ashamed of theirselves
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May 24, 2012

BaleliM

Once again, such stories highlight the need to change leaders that will bring delivery to the affected areas.

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May 24, 2012

nomsa4

this is so not fare on these kids!!!!!!!!!!
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May 24, 2012

7000000

@MommaC
Disabled people are treated worse than mongrels in SA. It really is heart breaking.

A plan may be to have the stream system for schooling so that able bodied children get to see that disabled children are not some kind of aberration.
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I totally agree with you my scat,,,,,,A political Chameleon looking for close allies from the left wingers , I cannot wait to win RobinH over, da boy is very difficult to please my bla, he need to be cut down to size.
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May 28, 2012

shaharazad

Here we go again. So the govt thinks disabled people are non-contributors to society? We need to look at the whole SA society in general. Our country is discriminatory towards disabled people, with some people thinking that its God's Curse if you are born invalidated. Are we ever going to get Oscar Pistoriuses if we continue with this stone-age mentality? Given the chance, disabled people are passionate about their societal responsibilities than the cavalier attitudes of us 'able-bodied'. I blame the govt, it seems they (govt) are ethnically cleansing disabled people from society. They will still be here in the next millenium, whether we like it or not, so get on with it!!
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May 31, 2012

tokolosi

how on earth do you expect a Std 3 graduate to drive education as a source of hope...never...he just wanst more kuku, more children and more money for himself.....he took a shower to prevent AIDS - there's the level of thinking in him
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