"The schools of the poor are routinely disrupted or trashed by adults, by unions, activists, gangsters, without any effective intervention."
THE government could no longer deny there was a crisis in education when it only worked for a small percentage of middle class children, leading academic Jonathan Jansen has said.
Speaking at the fifth memorial Imam Abdullah Haron lecture in Salt River, Cape Town, on Tuesday night, Jansen said privileged schools had no interruptions to teaching and learning.
"The schools of the poor are routinely disrupted or trashed by adults, by unions, activists, gangsters, without any effective intervention ."
Jansen took aim at President Jacob Zuma, his cabinet and officials as a seemingly uncaring government.
"The defensive argument that Rome was not built in a day, but the Nkandla homestead apparently can be, suggests to ordinary people a massive fraud estimated in the Nkandla case of more than R200-million rands of taxpayers' money.
"Show me one minister who does not place their child or grandchild in a high quality pre-school [or] one top government official who places their child in a historically black university."
Declare crisis in education, says Prof Jansen
"The schools of the poor are routinely disrupted or trashed by adults, by unions, activists, gangsters, without any effective intervention."
THE government could no longer deny there was a crisis in education when it only worked for a small percentage of middle class children, leading academic Jonathan Jansen has said.
Speaking at the fifth memorial Imam Abdullah Haron lecture in Salt River, Cape Town, on Tuesday night, Jansen said privileged schools had no interruptions to teaching and learning.
"The schools of the poor are routinely disrupted or trashed by adults, by unions, activists, gangsters, without any effective intervention ."
Jansen took aim at President Jacob Zuma, his cabinet and officials as a seemingly uncaring government.
"The defensive argument that Rome was not built in a day, but the Nkandla homestead apparently can be, suggests to ordinary people a massive fraud estimated in the Nkandla case of more than R200-million rands of taxpayers' money.
"Show me one minister who does not place their child or grandchild in a high quality pre-school [or] one top government official who places their child in a historically black university."
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