MEDIA STATEMENT
BY THE
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY
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IFP MEDIA
STATEMENT BY: 13 March 2008 The Inkatha Freedom Party has for a very long time warned that the education system in South Africa is in a state of revolving crisis, and the report released yesterday by the Human Rights Commission confirms our statements. It is absolutely shocking to read that our schoolchildren, as young as seven years old, are pretending to hit or rape each other at school. What is even more disturbing is that some young girls are offering sex to educators in return for good marks. These actions must be denounced in the strongest possible manner. The IFP believes that the Human Rights Commission report only confirms the following: our education department is in a sorry state and that we are facing a disaster, which government has failed to recognise and properly address. The IFP believes that school violence is a reflection of a sick society. And therefore we need to urgently restore the values of ubuntu, which has gradually eroded over the years. Furthermore the IFP also believes that respect for authority and a respect for the profession must be reintroduced. We must revisit laws that allow for or encourage anti-social behaviour. Discipline, of both learners and educators, must be returned to schools. How can we honestly expect to bring down the high levels of crime in our country when our educational institutions have become havens of drug abuse, violence, ill-discipline and immoral behaviour? Our school grounds have become war zones and not places of safety and learning. The IFP calls on government to: - recognise the crisis unfolding within our education system and to give it the priority and attention it deserves - immediately announce what plans they are going to put in place to stop the scourge of violence at our schools
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