Lesufi: 'Solidarity must back off! Race politics at schools is over'
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says the time for race politics, particularly in schools, has passed.
Speaking at the opening of Centurion Primary School on Wednesday, Lesufi touched on the Schweizer-Reneke primary school controversy, after a photo emerged showing black children sitting at a desk, separate from their white counterparts.
Lesufi said much time had been spent focusing on other "silly things" instead of whether there were enough proper qualified teachers in classrooms.
"Those that want to bring us into race politics, we have passed that stage. Those that believe that schools in Centurion are only for their mother tongue language, they don’t want any other language, keep your own school and we will keep our own school," he said.
Lesufi said the reality was that South Africans were better off together than divided.