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The Namibian
Tue 13 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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NEWS - AFRICA
| 2013-07-26
Activists slam Zille’s Motshekga defence
JOHANNESBURG – Equal Education slammed Western Cape Premier Helen Zille yesterday for her article defending Education Minister Angie Motshekga, saying she had made “factual errors”.
In the article, ‘Zille goes in to bat for Motshekga’ published on the Cape Argus website on Saturday, Zille said Motshekga might be a “hate target”, but she had fulfilled her constitutional responsibilities better than her predecessors.
“She actually understands conditions in the average disadvantaged classroom. As a result she is trying to develop ‘norms, standards, policies and frameworks’ that take account of reality. That on its own, is a giant leap forward for education,” Zille wrote.
However, EE chairperson Yoliswa Dwane said Zille’s article was “misleading and riddled with errors”.
“Zille suggests more than once that norms and standards [for school infrastructure] may be ‘unachievable’, ‘unaffordable’ and ‘impractical’,” Dwane said in a statement.
“These claims are undermined by the concurrence given by the minister of finance, as well as the support for norms and standards in the National Development Plan, and from the Auditor General and fiscal and finance commission.”
She said Zille’s comment that the norms and standards required “tortuous public-participation processes” was not the reality.
Dwane claimed there was no public participation process after the publication of draft norms and standards in January.
“The only body that involved the public was Equal Education, which held public hearings in five provinces and collected 700 submissions which were distilled into two,” she said.
“Motshekga had 11 weeks from the submission closing date until the June 15 deadline, but she made no effort to use the public’s input to fix and finalise the norms and standards,” she claimed.
EE took Motshekga to court in July, claiming she had breached an agreement reached in November 2012 to publish the final document by May 15, or by the extended deadline of June 15. The East London High Court ordered that she promulgate the norms and standards by 30 November.
- Nampa-Sapa
In the article, ‘Zille goes in to bat for Motshekga’ published on the Cape Argus website on Saturday, Zille said Motshekga might be a “hate target”, but she had fulfilled her constitutional responsibilities better than her predecessors.
“She actually understands conditions in the average disadvantaged classroom. As a result she is trying to develop ‘norms, standards, policies and frameworks’ that take account of reality. That on its own, is a giant leap forward for education,” Zille wrote.
However, EE chairperson Yoliswa Dwane said Zille’s article was “misleading and riddled with errors”.
“Zille suggests more than once that norms and standards [for school infrastructure] may be ‘unachievable’, ‘unaffordable’ and ‘impractical’,” Dwane said in a statement.
“These claims are undermined by the concurrence given by the minister of finance, as well as the support for norms and standards in the National Development Plan, and from the Auditor General and fiscal and finance commission.”
She said Zille’s comment that the norms and standards required “tortuous public-participation processes” was not the reality.
Dwane claimed there was no public participation process after the publication of draft norms and standards in January.
“The only body that involved the public was Equal Education, which held public hearings in five provinces and collected 700 submissions which were distilled into two,” she said.
“Motshekga had 11 weeks from the submission closing date until the June 15 deadline, but she made no effort to use the public’s input to fix and finalise the norms and standards,” she claimed.
EE took Motshekga to court in July, claiming she had breached an agreement reached in November 2012 to publish the final document by May 15, or by the extended deadline of June 15. The East London High Court ordered that she promulgate the norms and standards by 30 November.
- Nampa-Sapa
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