BOSA Leader Mmusi Maimane offers support to new Basic Education Minister on 10 key interventions
15 July 2024
There remain two education systems in South Africa. One for the rich, and one for the rest. A dual education system is the dream of the architects of apartheid. It is our job to build One education system that serves all 24 000 learners, regardless of language or background.
House chairperson, last week the Public Protector released a report into the Mayibuye Primary School in Gauteng as I laid a formal complaint nearly 4 years ago after personally visiting the school.
To date the school has cost the taxpayer almost R100 million yet is out of operation. The school was built on a wetland in 2018 and is unsafe for human habitation as sewerage floors through its grounds.
The PP found maladministration and impropriety by government as politically contractors profited from this catastrophe.