By Lelethu Mquqo
12 July 2010
Just hours before the Netherlands versus Spain final, president Jacob Zuma convened leaders from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mozambique, the Netherlands and neighbouring Zimbabwe at an education summit in Pretoria yesterday.
At the meeting, he urged African leaders to ensure that no parent gets to pay school fees or buy uniforms, costs that can keep children out of school. He also called on leaders from developed countries to honour pledges to support education in poor countries.
The summit is the conclusion of 1GOAL, a campaign supported by football's governing body Fifa to use the attention the World Cup commands to publicise the need to get more children into school. It’s estimated that, about 72 million children are not in school and millions more do not have access to quality education, according to 1GOAL.1GOAL has brought in luminaries from sports, entertainment and politics to push the campaign.
A 12 year old girl named Nthabiseng Tshabalala concluded her touching speech with a plea to all the leaders, saying as they received a chance to get good education they must make sure that children around the world get theirs.
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