DA Youth leader Makashule Gana said the ANC-aligned student body was taking its cue from the ANC Youth League, which had made known its intention to make the province ungovernable.

The ANCYL and Cosas have threatened to stage protests, including the blockading of roads.

Gana said: "It is time for Cosas and the ANC Youth League to grow up and stop playing politics with the lives of poor young people. If Cosas was really driven by principled opposition to school closures, it would take up our challenge with gusto and launch the same protests in other provinces [too]."

Gana questioned Cosas's silence at the recent announcement by the KwaZulu-Natal education department and their Northern Cape counterparts, where hundreds of schools are due to be shut down, partly because of the rapidly decreasing numbers of pupils.

"But Cosas won't do that because it is only interested in political point scoring," Gana said.

The SA Institute of Race Relations said 1116 schools have been closed in Free State since 2000, 648 in North West, 590 in Eastern Cape, 215 in Mpumalanga, 173 in Limpopo and 111 in Northern Cape.

Cosas provincial secretary Samkelo Mqomboti declared war on the Western Cape on Friday, a few days after the ANCYL said it would launch mass action in retaliation for lack of service delivery. The province's education department said it aimed "to place learners in schools that are better equipped".

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Aug 14, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

What do you expect!!!
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Aug 14, 2012

My5cent

ANC and its allience partners and associations are pulling out all the stops to discredit the DA run Western Cape.

They cant argue with the facts that its is a well run provinced. Its making a dent in unemployment with its policies starting to bare fruit. Its good clean governance is baring fruit.

Those schools are practicaly empty with no facilities. They are closing them down but organising alternative schools for those learners affected.

Come 2014 the DA will win the Western Cape with 60% + just like after one term in the City of Cape Town they won 60%.

I hope people see through these lies the ANC is spewing. Rather then violance and slowing down the the Western Cape they should rather focus on the sick state the other provinces are. The only way they can win Western Cape back ever is by running the other provinces well. But thats just too much work
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Aug 14, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

My5cent
Clearly you do not understand politics boss!!!
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Aug 14, 2012

LostGuy

DA , must shut up hypocrites your madam used you as puppets you were forced to march against cosatu while we know cosatu is not the govt create b.lack on b.lack violence to please your masters, you dont have solution to school closing but when cosas come up with the solution you call it political point scoring , you will remain the opposition until you d.ie as you only make noise with no alternative thats the reason why ANC will rule forever cause you only b.itch without giving something different.

AS FOR tHIS WINDOW DRESSING Makashule Gana, do u even know DA policies on land and economical transformatioon? cause its oppress B.lack people more but since your naive and stupid you allowed to be used like spies during their evil regime.
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Aug 14, 2012

BraSteve

@LostGuy,

Which solutions did Cosas come up with?
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Aug 14, 2012

somaartakeit

To think that they staged no protest against non deliverance of text books as a direct result Limpopo and as a direct result of this angie motshekga incompetence many young ppl in Limpopo are going to fail the matric as such will add to another group of lost generation, well done anc, keep it up (ie the masses children uneducated) I am sure Verwoerd is proud of you guys.
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Aug 14, 2012

somaartakeit

@LostGuy
DA , must shut up hypocrites your madam used you as puppets you were forced to march against cosatu while we know cosatu is not the govt create b.lack on b.lack violence to please your masters,
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The anc is no different if not worse, considering that they use black votes to enrich leaders of the anc and their families whilst majority blacks in SA still live in squalor and the downtrodden of the lot, and this education crisis is going to add more downtrodden in the list of social grants recipients, I often wonder if black SAns trully consider themselves free, when their children can't even receive basic right for their children ie access to education?? and I have no doubt in 50yrs time blacks like you will still be blaming da white man for all the mess the anc will have put many black SAns into fi they are not curtailed now.
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Aug 14, 2012

David-

@LostGuy

Why dont you check your facts before you open your mouth?

Why Cape plans to close 27 schools
http://www.thepost.co.za/why-cape-plans-to-close-27-schools-1.1358750

These seem like good reasons
dwindling numbers
No resources to deliver the full curriculum
They typically offered multigrade teaching, with more than one grade in a class.
Poor physical condition of the buildings,
Poor academic performance.

As for your ramblings, nothing new there just the same old garbage

SA is starting to resemble the novel Animal Farm
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Aug 14, 2012

Naivegirl

@David. Funny that I made a comment about SA resembling Animal Farm just the other day.

It is actually a pity that it isn't prescribed in schools anymore. There are so many lessons to learn.
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Aug 14, 2012

somaartakeit

@Naivegirl even if it was prescribed in schools Angie wld just make sure that text books do not reach destination and kids would have been non the wiser,
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