Are we experiencing the fading of profession Teaching

The fact is profesion of a teaching is the one that develops and shape our country. The government and the world preach that education is power and key to alleviate power. To achieve this song or a goal, a teacher is used as a vehicle. However, the poor teacher's at the end are renumerated peanuts. I called this peanuts because "Teachers" cannot afford to buy house, clothes for their children, cars and etc.....very painfully you found a teacher renting a backroom in a township with one of his or her learner.....

Our State is really not taking care of our beloved Teachers! How do u pay teachers peanuts and suddenly you expect them to deliver quality education and produce future Doctors, Engineers and many professional. Do we see a teaching as calling to poverty or will we say teachers are passion about teaching? how do u motivate a young leaner to study teaching?

In the near future I realy see South Africa facing brain draining of the teachers(teachers moving to other countries for greener pastures) and shortage of teachers (as people will now be scared to study profession of teaching as they will be trapped into poverty).

Let the government give teachers what is due to dm...... and by doing so we can proudly say Education is a key to alleviate poverty (1) because profession of teaching will not fade but our teachers will be motivated and encouraged to continue doing their lovely work, (2)they will be able to deliver quality education, (3)Sector Education & Training Authority (SETA) will see many people becoming teachers. (4) The country will not have high rate of school leavers and unemployment will decrease.

Let the governement used this opportunity as a way to acknowledge teachers!!!

Media tribunal and Protection of information bill

What happen to our freedom of speech and expression, and free access to information? Do we want to confess the notion that history repeat itself? What type of society do we want to build (a democratic and informed society or society that lives under a dark cloud, where we see our leaders hide information)?

A south Africa has moved from an apartheid error to a democratic society (some they have even went further to say democracy alone is not enough and there is a lack of Civilocity- Civilocity is a form of government where people watch a ruler entirely. Meaning that people are able to watch all of the activities of a leader 24/7 & the president is able 2 share information with its followers frequently). A healthy state or government is the one that build learning, sharing and informed society, it should be transparent enough, accountable, build open society and provide free access to information, and also allow freedom of expression and speech.

Media has payed a vital role to provide access to information and exposed corrupt officials and government leaders, by doing so they inform society about the actions of our government leaders. Our society is faced by leaders who are hungry to pay themselves in the expense of ordinary citizens. For example, why do we have to have leader’s who owned company(s) and spontaneously are expected to deliver service delivery to the communities?

The Protection of Information Bill is a drafted Bill that is intends to replace Protection of Information Act No. 82 of 1982. According to the Protection of Information Bill “Any Head of the state (the Minister) has to classify information and may be classified as confidential, secrete and top secret”. Anyone who publishes classified information may face an imprisonment for a period of 25 years. Let the government shelve the protection of information bill and do its job by focusing on enhancing service delivery. Democracy works if information is freely accessible.

Published: By_Edgar Mokoena 17.08.2010