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Poor quality education destroys opportunities

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The following is an extract from a speech delivered by DA NMB Mayoral Candidate, Athol Trollip, to parents at an education crisis public meeting in Bethelsdorp last night, 26 January 2016.

Education is the key to opportunity. Without it, our young people face an uncertain future. In a country with spiralling unemployment, it is ludicrous that this ANC government continues to get basic education so terribly wrong.

It is abundantly clear that the ANC is imploding as we now see ANC public representatives laying charges against ANC-run departments.

The DA believes in getting governance right from the start, as is the case in the Western Cape, so that every South African has the opportunity to reach their dreams.

Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas come last, year after year, both at a provincial and local level.

Last year, this NMB government allocated a punitive 6% of the budget to this community. This is why our streets are piled high with uncollected rubbish, why gangsters and drug lords roam freely, why many streetlights don’t work, why our streets are falling to pieces and why many of our people are still forced to live in informal housing.

To make matters worse, this provincial government has neglected to provide quality education to our young people for too many years, preventing them from being able to access opportunities.

Every year we see plans to “mend education” and every year we see the progressive degradation of an already broken system.

The schools must be reopened and the only way this can happen is if the department of education immediately meets the demands of these justifiably angry parents.

Our children’s futures are at stake and enough is enough. The DA will not accept anything less than quality education now!

The DA is set on winning Nelson Mandela Bay at this year’s local government election, with our eyes firmly on the Union Buildings in 2019.

It is time for a new era of real freedom, fairness and opportunity for all.

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Alan Straton

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Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.