Zille must resign after poor school ruling
Western Cape premier Helen Zille must take full responsibility for the arbitrary closure of poor black schools in the province which has been set aside with costs by the High Court today (see here).
ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman says: "DA leader Zille as a former education MEC disgracefully backed her present education MEC Donald Grant all the way to close these schools without due consultation and proper plans put in place.
"Zille must immediately resign as she and her DA-led government lost the public trust. The DA has scant regard for the rights of vulnerable people like those of primary school children from farming communities," Fransman says.
The DA-led Western Cape provincial government has now for the second time lost their case with cost as the interdict was granted late last year and now on review the decision to close the schools was set aside by full benches of the court.
"The ANC welcomes the judgment. It once more vindicates the stance of the ANC and all other parties that the DA discriminated and disadvantaged poor black learners.