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<\/p>\nRabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za<\/p>\n
21 January 2025<\/p>\n
3 minute read<\/p>\n
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\u201cA charade that masks reality!\u201d This, according to former statistician general and analyst, Phali Legola, is the \u201critualised spectacle\u201d of the final matric exam results that sounds a \u201chollow victory masking the education crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n
The substantial numbers of failures and those who never make it to matric contribute to many South Africans not having an academic or skilled future.<\/p>\n
An analysis data by race indicated that the Indian and white communities in the country perform much better at matric, with more than 61% going on to tertiary educational institutions as opposed to their black counterparts. Similarly, the progress of these communities can be assessed by the higher percentage who enter the workforce, as well as the rates of unemployment that have been shown to be four times lower than the rates amongst the black and coloured populations.<\/p>\n
By not treating matric results in the correct context and overvaluing this \u201cmomentary\u201d victory, Mr Legola says that the president is \u201cmissing the point\u201d. As opposed to other developing economies whose focus is education, \u201cwe are regressing,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
While \u201cwhites reached the heights they reached because of apartheid,\u201d the Indians, who were as equally affected by racial discrimination as the blacks, still managed to succeed. Over the past 70 odd years, Indians have shown progress that \u201ceven surpasses the whites.\u201d Mr Legola says that this may be due to their lower level of social destruction, the upholding of the family structure, and the building of their own schools which allowed them to focus on education.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrivatising education is not the solution,\u201d he says. In countries like Rwanda, Finland, and Canada, the public schooling system works and has been perfected to the extent that private schools are rare or non-existent. Mr Legola concluded that instead of the government looking at the greater public good, the \u201clack of participation in the education system by the leaders of this country\u201d has led to the downfall of the public education system in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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