REOPENING OF SCHOOLS @KASIBCNEWS

The 2025 school year begins in earnest, inspired by the outstanding performance of the class of 2024. This feat is the work and investment of the ANC which elevated education on the apex of its agenda as a priority of government during the last five years based on the ANC election manifesto.

This is the massive feat of 30 years of democracy championed by all role players in the educational space.   The state of education is on the right quality growth path, necessitating a collaborative effort by the school governing bodies, communities and parents to ensure the safety of learners, nutritional school programme, school environment cleanliness, scholar transport safety and stationery for quality state of readiness. 

The equality and quality gap between urban and rural schools, affording and improvised schools, learners on social grants, learners from poor and child-headed households is gradually closing by implementing pro-poor policies to ensure universal access and equality in our education system. This work includes investment in infrastructure development, school sport, extra curricula programmes, investment in information technology and the regulation of the spaza shop sector to prevent food borne diseases that account for the death and sickness of learners. 

This is in line with the imperatives of education, access, children, dignity, language and culture and as espoused by the Constitution. Guided by the Freedom Charter that “The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall Be Opened”, the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act (BELA Act) that promotes and guarantees universal access, the dignity of learners, the equality of languages and investing in people it is our earnest believe that no child shall be denied the right to education. 

We appeal to communities to assume leadership by ensuring that the opening of schools is seamless to welcome the 2025 cohort as a continuation of the work of the past 30 years of democracy.  

The ANC shall continue to invest in people by building quality education and creating a conducive environment for quality learning. “The Doors of Learning and Culture Shall Be Opened”.