Education Minister at loggerheads with Equal Education
Imogen Vollenhoven
19 June 2013
Lesufi said Equal Education is being
unreasonable by taking the matter to court.
Department of Basic Education’s
Panyaza Lesufi said the re-draft of the norms and standards for school
infrastructure will not be ready before December.
This is after the department was
taken to court by Equal Education for not publishing the norms and standards
for school infrastructure in June.
Minister Angie Motshekga has asked for a six
month extension.
Lesufi said that Equal Education is
saying that the Minister must sign and then say that from tomorrow, every
school will have 25 learners in a classroom, every
school will have electricity, every school will have water and a new building and
they want the Minster to sign an agreement to that.
“Its something that
is practically impossible, we have argued that we can be in a position to sign if
we say every new school that is built, it must be built with a library, with a
laboratory and with a computer lab and that is where we differ with ourselves
and Equal Education,” said Lesufi.
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