By Jean Michel Bouvier
The bright sparks of the Education Department put their heads together again and this time after “brain storming” they came up with another idiotic and hare-brained decision. But let’s put it this way I didn’t expect anything cerebral from this bunch of imbeciles that have proven when let loose, they create havoc and destruction.
This time they decided that they will introduce Kiswahili as an extra language towards “decolonisation”, as they put it. Any excuse to cover their mistakes or experimenting with new ones if they cannot blame the legacy of apartheid. So on top of the 11 official languages and 15 non-official languages that we have already, such as the Khoi, Nama, San and others, now we have Kiswahili.
My heart breaks when I hear and read about the rocketing unemployment rate; for young people it has reached 63.3%, and these imbeciles put more languages in their curricula.
When the whole world focuses on maths, computer science, artificial intelligence, information technology, automation, programming, coding robotics, technology, cybernetics, electronics and industrialisation, we go the other way. How about our president and ministers and chancellors at our universities that keep on talking about the 4th Industrial Revolution, but they do nothing instead of trying to concentrate on science and maths and technology and improving the overall standing of the country to compete with the rest of the world.
South Africa is second-last in the world rankings in maths and science. The World Economic Forum also ranked the country last out of 146 countries … this when we spend as much as 13 African countries on education, but produce unemployable people. Kenya has the best education system in Africa and Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mali and Sierra Leone are all miles ahead of us.
Does our government feel ashamed about this? Definitely not as they have the audacity to beg for investments and have investment conferences one after another and exalt, praise and glorify our banana republic.
They think the rest of the world are as dumb and blind as they are.
The Star