Learners in South Africa continue to be fed an inferior, failed education that has not produced anything substantial so far. According to Stellenbosch University researchers, they describe factors contributing to this failed system to weak institutional functionality, poor teacher content knowledge and insufficient learning time for pupils. This simply means in a nutshell that, our teachers in public schools know zilch about the content or subject they are teaching our children. What an unfortunate situation for all learners in school currently. Our learners are paying a heavy price and it seems like nobody dares to do anything to address this situation. The Stellenbosch Educational experts, who compiled this report, cautioned that, unless this factors are resolved, no amount of money or time spend will ever help.

We continue to have a Minister and MECs all around us whose responsibility is to see to it that such thorny issues are resolved but no they run around chasing ghosts. Our education is in ICU because it is managed by people who are less concerned about its well-being. And South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) is not helping the situation either. Instead of addressing the plight of our learners, the Union continue to interfere with the ability of the education to act in the best interest of our learners. SADTU is mismanaging things by not encouraging its members, who are teachers to put the interests of learners above theirs. No wonder so many teachers lost track and can’t even complete a syllabus. Today, you would not find even a single child of this teachers attending at the very same school where he or she teaches. This teachers take their children to this so-called multy-racial Model Cs schools because they know very well that, at their respective schools thy will not receive proper education or enough time in class with a teacher teaching. The state of our education today is in shambles. Our public schools have lost the grip of things, teachers go to school to collect pay cheques and not to teach and nobody is doing anything about it.

Limpopo province continues to be hard hit by this uncontrollable plethora. In this province you still find schools without teaching and learning materials. Schools with no classrooms, teachers’ quing at the nearest supermarket when they are suppose to be in class teaching. Limpopo schools are most undeveloped, powerless, teacher less and level of fails is catastrophic. There are very few that can boost better results, better infrastructure and great teacher turnout; i can count those with my bare hands. The rest are just a shadow of nothing.

Lack of insufficient learning time for pupils and poor teacher content knowledge continue to be the hall mark of education Limpopo province and learners are subjected to such on a daily basis. We need a saviour in Limpopo now than ever.

Big up to Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi, the man is doing everything in his power to transform the state of education in the province. This include revamping the current learner registration system, even thou the system embarrassed  and exposed him to harsh words of frustrated parents but eventually he got it right. The least said about his counterpart in Limpopo, Mr. Ishmael Kgetjepe the better. This guy is doing absolutely nothing to address the state of our education in the province, he continue to blame it on administration. Kgetjepe has made no address, no mention of anything about changes in our education and has not even gone anywhere near poor schools to see the condition some teachers work under. Right now Panyaza Lesufi in Gauteng is ramping up the appointment of principals, a big move and a good one nogal given the influence of principals at their schools. While Kgetjepe continue to ride state property while failing in his job.

The state of education in South Africa is in dire need of a collective working relation now than ever. We cannot afford to have our schools producing inferior complex products when the are so many intellectuals at our disposals. Government must swallow its pride and approach experts such as those at Stellenbosch University to assist re-constructing our education system. Until then, no matter how much money or time spend, no matter the revamps and ramps guys like Panyaza Lesufi come up with, the will still be no change with core business of teaching which is educating the South African child for a better tomorrow.