ANC welcomes the appointment of task team on Limpopo textbook saga
The African National Congress (ANC) welcomes the bold step by President Jacob Zuma to appoint a task team to look into the causes of the delays in delivering textbooks to Limpopo schools.
As the ANC, we are still shocked and embarrassed that six months into an education year, there are still some learners in Limpopo who are still without the necessary school books. The ANC strongly condemns the alleged senseless dumping of so-much needed textbooks by our learners in river streams and unused former Colleges of Education in and around Limpopo. To us, this clearly illustrates tendencies of sabotaging the provision of education to our learners in Limpopo. We therefore call upon a speedy investigation by the police on those behind this dumping and we reiterate our call for their immediate arrest.
The task team established by the President, as mention above, will give insight to all South Africans to know the reasons for the non-delivery and delays of delivering these text books to affected schools and it will further make recommendations to prevent a future recurrence.
We seriously urge government to take disciplinary action against anyone within the provincial and national government, who might have played a role in delaying or stopping the delivery of these books to our schools in Limpopo. We again want to put it on record that such sabotaging activities cannot and should not be tolerated.
We will await in anticipation the conclusion of the investigation by the task team within the time frame that the President has given.
ALL TALK: President Jacob Zuma was interviewed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. PHOTO: GCIS
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MicaParis
The level of indecisive behavior of Comrade President is disgusting and embarrassing. There was an early call to probe this matter one and half year ago while the damage was not yet done. This matter was brought up through a Presidential Hotline corruption report but the poor illiterate unorganized President did not see anything wrong by then, now that the damage has being done to the future of our children poor lack of innovative energetic illiterate President importunately raise eyebrows while is extremely and foolishly too late to take drastic action as an intelligent and proactive President, how ridiculous and pathetic for our poor low thinking minded illiterate President. Clearly the future of our children is severely being undermined as this is not a problem because children of all executive members do not attend these kinds of lousy low class schools but yet parents of these poor pupils are direly important during general elections! Who is fooling who here! These Comrades think we are fools! ANC need a very serious wakeup call before they can start doing things by the book! I think one term outside the Government might open their mind for a bit! We demand that the President fire the Minister of Basic Education, the Premier of Limpopo and the MEC of the most embarrassing Department of Education failure of century of Limpopo. The following Comrades by the name of Zuma , Mathale and Masemola have one thing in common, they all have no degree or any formal qualification and are thereby illiterates bunch of academic intellectually lacking nonsensical clowns who cannot define anything of educational substance as such we are not surprised by what they have done in the poor Province of Limpopo which need a very urgent vital emergency leadership revolution to take the primitive middle aged Province forward as soon as possible. The fire is burning up north we need urgent intervention Mr President!Report Abuse
CheeseBoy
The only thing on Zuma's little pea brain is how to increase the size of his HAREM. and give them a better life with a 2 billion rand jet.little issues like the crisis in education don't bother him much.
This task team is nothing more than a money wasting far-card to pull a wool over our eyes and not focus on the ball.
Simple there was a major fcuk up in the ext book saga, you don't need a bloody task team to tell you that. Angie must go. but then again so should Jacob Zuma.
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BaleliM
it is too little too late. I love the way they always seem to condemn such things and yet do nothing. why was a probe not done by March this year? The reason why all this seems to fall apart is because of a leader that does not know how to deal with his house and delegate work to people that are qualified to do so.Report Abuse
T'kae
There is only one solution to this problem, actually two (1. All individuals invoved should be fired/ go to jail. (2.Pass one Pass all rule should apply to all Limpopo students.)Report Abuse
Nicholaster
As far as I know and understand, SAPS will arrest them, then the NPA release them, only with R1000 bail. Unfortunately, dozens of dozens of Limpopians, lost the education...Report Abuse
PAPARAZ
how many task teams has to be appointed in this case. it seems like the long waiting hungry vultures were waiting for this to happen so that they can submit their CVs. one concrete investigating team was suitable and sufficient to handle this. after all this investigations are completed, we would be investigating the teams who were behind this investigations to find out as to whether proper channels and protocols were letigimately followed to appoint them.Report Abuse
Silentstorm2010
"...bold step by Zuma to appoint a task team.."I think I understand why Zuma did not go to school,he was slow.That is why he is only appointing a task team 5 months before the end of the school year...What was he doing in February,planning yet another wedding?
I think it is unfair to expect a man with less than standard 2 to be CEO of the country...
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Pointman
Investigating themselves? What is the composition of the task team?Any leadership which lets its own kids down with not even a tiny apology is callous in its mental make up. Once again we see a liberation movement turning into an oppressor.
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