Striking teachers are full of shit, allowing children to suffer
When I was in high school, there was a massive teachers’ strike in 1990. This was my Standard 8 or Grade 10 year, and we did not have a permanent principal at Uitenhage High School. This was also a time for massive changes in the South African political landscape, with Nelson Mandela being released and […]
Gauteng Online is a failure doomed from the beginning
What were they thinking when the Gauteng Department of Education promised to connect all the schools in Gauteng to the Internet within 5 years? This is a rhetorical question about the stupidity of infrastructure projects of this nature. The government themselves are the most inefficient user of technology, and with this project, they were meant […]