On the occasion of the tabling of the 2022/23 Policy and Budget Speech yesterday, MEC Majuba made a clarion call to every citizen in the Province to contribute towards the improvement of the delivery of education.
He said:
” We envision a Province where teaching and learning have been leveraged to greater heights, where standards of teaching and learning are second to none.
True to the saying that the wise came from the East, and as wise people of the Province of the rising sun, we wish to pioneer an education dispensation of the greatest quality, which would be a game-changer in bringing about social and economic emancipation.
Our envisioned education dispensation will also add great impetus to government’s efforts to break the cycle of inequality, marginalization and poverty.
We are doing this inspired by the magnitude of support from all our stakeholders, social partners and from the business community in keeping to government’s mantra, which says:
Let’s Grow South Africa Together- Leave NO One Behind. In essence, we are saying – Babize Bonke!
We are on a drive to rally everyone, an adult on a pension, a young graduate, a pastor, a nurse, a CEO of any company, an engineer, a pilot, a businesswoman, a soccer player, a medical doctor, a unionist, a mine worker, a police officer, a religious leader, traditional healer, an inmate and a street vendor.
This is a social call to all, as in the words of Karl Marx;
“If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all.”
This statement accentuates the power of working together in unison for a common purpose and common good. We only stand to succeed if we all hold hands and work together.
Everyone and every institution are invited to actively partake in this journey to reawaken the culture of teaching and learning in ways that have not been seen before. It is the right thing to do, and I am certain that we are succeeding in this course.
