Posts Tagged Equal Education
Breaking news: Thousands fast for libraries across the country
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equal Education, Equality and LGBTI politics, South African politics on 30/07/2010
Over 5000 people are Fasting with EE for school libraries in South Africa Doron Isaacs It is 10am, Friday 30 July 2010. School children, teachers, parents, activists and ordinary people have been fasting for 16 hours. Their aim: “1 School 1 Library 1 Librarian”. If you haven’t started fasting, start now for the remaining 8 [...]
Join Fast for School Libraries — Why Cosatu supports Equal Education
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Equal Education, South African politics on 25/07/2010
On Thursday 29th July 2010 at 18:00 thousands of learners, students, teachers, parents, activists and community members will join a fast called by Equal Education in its campaign for school libraries. We are fasting because class and race apartheid still exists in our education system. We are fasting because our children are doomed to a [...]
Western Cape textbooks reply unsatisfactory and evasive
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 24/06/2010
Today, Western Cape Education Department (WCED) replied to Equal Education’s legal representatives letter of Demand, mainly stating that the department will conduct a further survey to find out about textbook shortages. The MEC’s reply states that Chris Hani and Kwamfundo Senior Secondary Schools needs will be considered and actions will be informed by the outcome [...]
Equal Education May Sue Western Cape Government — No textbooks
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 21/06/2010
Learners in Khayelitsha still remain without textbooks after more than half the school-year is over. Yoliswa Dwane’s press release below explains why Equal Education is considering taking the Western cape education department to Court. How efficient is the Western Cape DA government? Your views. Zackie Achmat Western Cape Scandal: No Textbooks for grade 12s after [...]
Turkish journalist, Irfan Aktan, imprisoned for ‘pro-Kurdish’ article by Doron Isaacs
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 09/06/2010
Every democrat across the world has welcomed Turkey’s leadership on Palestine and its condemnation of its ally Israel. Its attempt (with Brazil) to mediate with Iran to ensure a nuclear-free Middle-East is also a very important step in breaking US power in the region. We must continue to support both these efforts. However, Turkey has [...]
Equal Education:What Western Cape MEC for education Donald Grant calls “idealism” we call fundamental human rights
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 27/05/2010
On Friday 14 May a school library was opened at Thembelihle High School in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The library was opened through the work of Equal Education, a movement for quality and equality in education, currently leading a campaign for school libraries. The books were collected through the ‘Bookery’, a project of Equal Education (EE) [...]
“‘n Skrik Gedaante Loop in Europa Rond”: Lessons from the Afrikaans Language Movement
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 18/05/2010
THE AFRIKAANS LANGUAGE MOVEMENT – A PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT Afrikaans became a recognised language through organised mass struggle. The Afrikaans language movement is instructive for all of us who believe that the struggle for quality education must include language equality. Afrikaners realized that real citizenship and equality was indistinguishable from the movement to recognise Afrikaans as [...]
LANGUAGE AND THE INTELLECTUAL DISPOSSESSION OF AFRICAN AND COLOURED WORKING CLASS CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 17/05/2010
As children, the language medium of our primary school education was our home-language — Afrikaans. When we reached secondary school, we could choose Afrikaans or English as our medium of instruction. I chose English but many of my peers chose Afrikaans. This right to choose meant that they did better in their content subjects such [...]
EQUAL EDUCATION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT — A PERSONAL APPEAL
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 30/04/2010
Dear Friend of Equal Education A PERSONAL APPEAL FOR YOUR SUPPORT I am convinced that Equal Education (EE) is one of the most important new civil society formations in South Africa. It is addressing inequality and poor quality in education – one of the critical fault lines in our society – and it is also [...]
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