Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa
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Date
2021
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José Frantz
Abstract
The Covid-19 lockdown period laid bare the fibre of South African
society: poverty, homelessness, welfare dependence, domestic violence,
police and military brutality, healthcare and hunger are all suddenly
under national and international scrutiny. From the onset it was clear
that, as a nation or a state, we cannot continue to pay lip service to the
social justice agenda of the country as the anxious population were
suddenly exposed to the inside workings of the national ministries and
departments. It was clear that the nexus between the state and the
populace is a broken one. There is a global tension about the origin
and management of the pandemic, but families in poor communities
just want to survive.
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South Africa, Basic education, Covid-19 lockdown, Welfare dependence, Pandemic
Citation
Maarman, R. (2021). Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa. Signals, (2)