SACP Western Cape "Congratulates the class of 2014 and condemns DA hypocrisy"

07th January 2015

The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Western Cape welcomes the release of the  Matric results and congratulates the class of 2014.

The SACP in the Province has noted the delay in releasing Matric results by the Western Cape Department of Education. We therefore call upon the MEC of Education, Ms Debbie Schäfer and Premier Helen Zille to desist from using the release of Matric results for cheap political manoeuvring.

We have further noted the decline in the Western Cape results by 2.9%, whilst the DA government lambasts the ANC Government at every opportunity, the Western Cape Department of Education closes schools in working class communities and is openly negligent towards addressing socio-economic matters affecting learners such as gangsterism and drugs and instead focuses on the attainment of international bourgeois recognitions and acclamations.

The reactionary obsession of the DA government during the release of Matric results whilst working class learners in the province continue to run the daily gauntlet of neo-liberal policy, and the results thereof, is now a common trend that must be condemned.

Aligned to this common trend is the DA Government's obsession of neglecting to account and address the spiraling pass-rate in the province whilst bizarrely questioning the results of other provinces. Perhaps the appointment of MEC's that attain no comprehensive knowledge of education, are completely removed from the realities facing the majority learners that reside in working class communities and have an interest solely in the schooling of bourgeois white privilege are the causes for this trend.

As the SACP in the Western Cape, we call on the Provincial Department of Education to immediately prioritise the challenges facing working class learners in the Province in the context of the travesty of the legacy of Apartheid that continues to perpetuate socio-economic difficulties in institutions of learning, and now, as a direct result of the DA Governments regressive policies of targeting working class schools has extended into institutionalised provincial Bantu Education.

Statement issued by Masonwabe Sokoyi, SACP Western Cape Provincial Spokesperson, January 7 2015

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