Thembela Ntongana and Kimberly Mutandiro
“Please care about black learners education” and “Where do your priorities lie? In appealing or in fixing our schools?” These were some of the placards held up by Equal Education (EE) activists and students who had slept outside Parliament to demand school safety.
About 80 members of EE, mostly school students, braved the cold weather and wind on Wednesday night. They arrived around 8pm in taxis lined with mattresses.
On Thursday, they handed over a memorandum to the office of Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, the office of the director general Hubert Mathanzima Mweli, and the office of the Western Cape Minister of Education Debbie Schafer.
“We are still fighting the fight for norms and standards which we have been been fighting since 2013. We are here to say the 2016 deadline was missed and students from Eastern Cape, Limpopo and other rural areas are still
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