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August 23, 2015
The question of colonialism has come to the fore again in South Africa, courtesy of the Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu). It has vehemently objected to the introduction of the Chinese Mandarin dialect to local schools, labelling the move "colonialism" by the Chinese.
July 13, 2014
Even the outrageous proposal by satirist Jonathan Swift that the problem of poverty could be dealt with by eating the children of the poor has failed, after 300 years, to bury to mistaken notion that procreation and "over population" is the cause of poverty.
Cape Town, South Africa-based journalist commentator and author specialising in political and economic analysis and labour matters.
The need to reimagine schooling
September 19, 2018
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To equate the power and violence of colonialism with the existing school system — both at the state and elite private level — was bound to raise hackles, however correct the analogy may be. And it is correct since both systems aim to bring about conformity to the existing political and economic order.