The Congress of South African Trade Union
has condemned racial segregation taking place at the Curro private school in Pretoria
The school last week made headlines after
pupils of different races were put into separate classrooms for culture
reasons. Cosatu National Spokesperson Patrick Craven
said they are totally opposed to any form of racial segregation.
Craven said we have enough problems in our
education system anyways because of lack of resources and the two tier system
which provides world class education to a small and still mainly white elite as
opposed to an under resourced and totally inadequate system for the poor who
are overwhelmingly black.
“This has a built in unofficial racism and
the last thing we need is to be compounded with the institutionalised racism
which we saw at the school in Pretoria
Meanwhile the Higher Education
Transformation said it will not fold its arm whilst racist classroom practices
multiply contrary to the Constitution of the Republic.
Executive Chairperson of HETN Lucky
Thekisho said what happened at Curro should be a lesson to all schools across
the country.
Thekisho added that anyone who has been
found deliberately engaged in racism or racist activities must be dealt with
harshly.
“There must be accountability now, we are
tired of this thing, and our accountability in this stance we propose that the
MEC of education in Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi must be able to ensure that drastic
actions is taken, actually we saying that the principle must lose his job so it
must set a precedent to others as well” Thekisho added.
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