COSATU offers to mediate Grabouw school crisis
20th March 2012
COSATU is outraged by the utterance of MEC Grant in relation to the schooling crisis and violence in Grabouw. Donald Grant is trying to fan racial discard in the area by making this crisis an issue of race. Problems were created by MEC Grant when he refused to address the lack of education resources in the overcrowded schools in the black community.
It is inevitable that both learners and parents would not tolerate this situation where effective education cannot take place due to overcrowding. The cowboy attitude of MEC Grant will not bring a solution to the crisis and he is exasperating the tensions.
COSATU is offering to mediate the crisis and to put in place a plan that the educational needs of the learners are addressed.
Statement issued by COSATU W Cape Provincial Secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, March 20 2012
Click here to sign up to receive our free daily headline email newsletter
