Education policy should ultimately be about educating children. Governance arrangements are supposed to serve that purpose, not become an endless source of institutional conflict.
My prediction. Keep on denying parents the right to educating their kids in their language of choice, and see how model C schools are replaced by private language based schools or home schooling. The financial impact on these model C schools and provincial education departments could be disasterous. I think my prediction has a high probability of manifesting
Think of the health sector too. Instead of improving failed state hospitals, our state rather wants to introduce an NHIS which, according to experts, will harm the well-functioning part of our health sector, without much improvement regarding the non-performing part.
Think of higher education. We have many poorly performing universities. Most of them are going from bad to terrible. Yet the state rather tried its best to change some well-functioning ones by means of especially language policy. Not build more universities, but rather “cannibalise” existing ones. Again, like with schools, actions are justified in terms of the elusive “transformation” guise, but the real reason is hatred for Afrikaans as a language of instruction. Did it achieve that goal? Partly, since Afrikaans instruction was crowded out at existing universities. But evidence of the fact that it over time totally flopped: think Akademia...
With more than 30 years experience in the State Health Sector I can assure you, the State is completely incapable of running the Healthcare System. They infact, destroyed it. And if you could’nt run the current system, (proved incompetence for 30 years) prevent endemic nepotism, corruption, killing of whistleblowers and ensure accountability, how do you justify taking private Healthcare funds to prop up NHI. Besides that, the Country cannot afford it. Our shrinking tax base is simply too small, and until the Healthcare Mafia, is held accountable, nothing can come of it.
My prediction. Keep on denying parents the right to educating their kids in their language of choice, and see how model C schools are replaced by private language based schools or home schooling. The financial impact on these model C schools and provincial education departments could be disasterous. I think my prediction has a high probability of manifesting
Think of the health sector too. Instead of improving failed state hospitals, our state rather wants to introduce an NHIS which, according to experts, will harm the well-functioning part of our health sector, without much improvement regarding the non-performing part.
Think of higher education. We have many poorly performing universities. Most of them are going from bad to terrible. Yet the state rather tried its best to change some well-functioning ones by means of especially language policy. Not build more universities, but rather “cannibalise” existing ones. Again, like with schools, actions are justified in terms of the elusive “transformation” guise, but the real reason is hatred for Afrikaans as a language of instruction. Did it achieve that goal? Partly, since Afrikaans instruction was crowded out at existing universities. But evidence of the fact that it over time totally flopped: think Akademia...
With more than 30 years experience in the State Health Sector I can assure you, the State is completely incapable of running the Healthcare System. They infact, destroyed it. And if you could’nt run the current system, (proved incompetence for 30 years) prevent endemic nepotism, corruption, killing of whistleblowers and ensure accountability, how do you justify taking private Healthcare funds to prop up NHI. Besides that, the Country cannot afford it. Our shrinking tax base is simply too small, and until the Healthcare Mafia, is held accountable, nothing can come of it.
Man, you keep on impressing me with your clear insights!