ANC to focus on developing Grabouw
The Western Cape ANC demands immediate action by the DA-led Western Cape provincial government to take steps to alleviate the school congestion in Grabouw and to retract racial stereotype labelling by premier Helen Zille.
Western Cape ANC leader (deputy minister for international relations and cooperation) Marius Fransman at a Human Rights Rally in Grabouw said the DA disregarded the very human rights of learners to give them proper access to quality education by allowing them to be cramped into two too small schools. When people protest the fact that more than double the number of learners are forced into the classrooms intended for far less, the DA leader (Zille) retaliates with the nerve to call the learners for whom schools has to be build Eastern Cape "refugees" on Twitter.
"The children in need of proper facilities are of coloured and African origin, are staying in and around the townships and are not merely that of seasonal workers as the DA claims. Here Zille's prejudice is exposed. Her petticoat of bias is hanging out. In fact, her intolerance of people from the Eastern Cape is again showed up and the emperor is found to be without clothes. She paints them with the brush of suspicion as if they are regarded as foreigners in their own country. Indeed it is Zille who makes isiXhosa speaking people from the Eastern Cape feel unwelcome and aliens in the province which is already not very friendly towards African people," says Fransman.
Fransman addressed the community and ANC supporters on the education crisis there and alternatives to the stalemate between the people of Grabouw with the DA administration. He condemned the violence earlier the week and asked the police to also investigate the role of a DA aligned group of provocateurs.
The community is dissatisfied that temporary classrooms will come later, and be erected on sports fields or on land across the busy N2 highway which poses a grave dangerous to children running over it to the other side, not on empty municipal land closer to the former white town centre.