COSAS attack on education is an attack on our future
20 June 2017
The Democratic Alliance in Gauteng has noted with great concern calls by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) in the greater Johannesburg region for private schools to be torched and vandalised. This is a reckless and criminal call that assaults the country’s education system, its future, as well as the inalienable constitutional right to education.
COSAS, like the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU), is silent when issues relating to the poor quality of education, abuse by teachers and unfair labour practices are raised by both teachers and students.
Any call to burn schools, public or private, should be strongly condemned by all peace-loving and democratic South Africans.
Whatever issues COSAS has with private schools should be directed to the relevant institutions and authorities, and by means of intellectual and robust engagement, not criminal behaviour.