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Mind Your Language

Introduction

Our Government wants to implement education in all the 11 languages. In this article I am going to highlight the problems that are associated with this policy and the effect it will have on South Africa as a whole. The South African government is full of people who do not really know what they are doing and in the process they keep destroying the lives of people in our country. I mean what is this? Trying to change the education policy for the worst, ever since they took over from apartheid, the standard of education in this country has been dwindling compared to other countries. The quality is also disgusting as well but I will dwell on that later.

The Implications

They propose that all subjects should be administered in every indigenous language, what a joke, I mean what would they call a hyperbola in Sesotho. I am a Sotho speaking person but it would be ridiculous to teach me maths and physics in my language. They claim that it would make people understand the subjects better. Look at it this way, doing that would require a tremendous amount of administrative costs and resources not to mention the amount of money involved. First of all we have eleven languages in this country, this would entail eleven teachers for each subject in one school not to mention the people that would have to translate all these textbooks into these languages, there would have to be separate classes for each individual language and we all know that is impossible with our underfunded education system that has financial problems as we speak.


There are still people who are taught under trees and shacks to this day, why don’t they try to fix that first then we can start talking about this anarchy they are attempting to propose. There is another problem that may arise which is the content itself, I mean how would they pronounce parabola, vector, perpendicular and so forth into these languages, this would lead to confusion even amongst the people who speak those languages.

I know exactly what is happening here, you see after they took over the government in 1994, (don’t mistake me for a racist I am black myself) they are trying to get back at white people by doing things that white people did to them since they were forced to learn things in Afrikaans, they may be some truth into my argument I mean look at all the unnecessary name changes that have been going on. I believe this is stupid and unnecessary cause times and things have changed since this will lead to more hatred and a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.

What can be done?
What they should do is at least try and focus on the quality of education which as we speak is already in the gutters. All that money should be spent on building schools and making sure that everyone gets a chance at tertiary education without having to pay, I mean isn’t that what they promised us when they asked us to vote for them? Free education. I believe that they can train more quality teachers and employ them so that the quality and content of education matches that of private schools and international standards. All this is easy to do and should have been done a long time ago had the government employed competent and worthy people to lead our education system instead of employing people based on favors or those who went to the struggle because let’s face it most of them are stupid and fail our country,. Where have you heard that beetroot can cure AIDS? Only in South Africa

Thank you
Sello P Tsotetsi