LETTER: ANC hiding dismal state of education in KwaZulu-Natal
Conditions on the ground at KwaZulu-Natal’s rural schools, visited during last week’s provincial legislature functionality programme, show no correlation with a supposedly improved 2017 matric pass rate for the province. The visits, which focused primarily on better-performing schools, also exposed the ANC-led provincial parliament for cherry-picking in order to present a glowing picture of education — even if it means a fake or skewed perception of reality. This same selective approach also appears to be taking place within some schools, with a massive discrepancy between enrolled pupils and those who actually wrote Grade 12 in 2017. This reeks of culling. The DA found signs of this abhorrent practice at Abaqulusi High School and Mgamule High School in Umzumbe, where only about half of all matric pupils actually wrote their exams. This figure does not include modularised learners. It appears this exercise is predominantly happening in rural schools and lower quintile schools, which...
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