Open Letter to the Public Protector
Re: Complaint about deployments of the DA in the Western Cape Provincial Government
Dear Ms. Madonsela
Please receive correspondence from our offices in relation to the concern we have of the appointment of an MEC in the Provincial Government.
We raise the request for an investigation into the appointment of the MEC Donald Grant to the head of Education in April 2009. When he was appointed he was both surprised on his appointment and at the time said he knew nothing about education and would have to go and read up, something to the effect of him having to do homework.
We have given him an opportunity to prove himself, but under his tenure the gap between educational resources in rich and poor schools has increased, with no clear plan emerging to address the crisis that schools and the Education system in the Western Cape are in.