President Ramaphosa will sign the BELA Bill into Law September Friday the 13th. Here’s a summary of the bill:
First, the BELA Bill doesn’t touch much on issues such as schools curriculum, pass rates, subjects offered.. its primary focus is on administration and management processes in schools.
Some finer details of the amendment haven’t been clearly discussed, but here’s what we know:
- Inclusion of Grade R as compulsory schooling mandate under the SAS Act. This amendment said to relieve parents of the financial burden associated with Grade R education, particularly in no-fee schools.
- Language Policies: currently SGBs in public schools have so much power over policies such as the schools main language used. The BELA bill will transfer some of that power to the HOD ( I guess the minister of basic education). Some schools uses language of the minority learners, which is discriminatory to the majority… like what we see in most ‘Afrikaans public schools’ hence some people are angry😡. The HOD office will have to approve looking at the demographics
- Also admission into all public schools, decision making authority will be transferred to the HOD. This change was influenced by discriminatory admission practices observed in some schools.
- Will also give monitoring authority of learner’ school attendance to educators, principals, and school governing bodies, also outlining steps to be taken when a child is absent from school. Criminalise parents who keep children away from school, miximum 12 months jail time
- Prohibiting initiation practices in schools like what some schools do to Grade 8 learners. These practices said to make new learners feel uncomfortable.
- Prohibiting Corporal Punishment. Providing guidelines on how to discipline learners.
- On Home Schooling. Before a learner is registered for home schooling the department will send officials for pre registration site visit. The minister will provide other regulations on home schooling.
- The bill proposes that a code of conduct developed by a school must be sensitive to cultural beliefs and religious observances. The code of conduct must also contain a section which allows pupils to request an exemption from complying with certain parts of the code of conduct.
Meet Uerbert Angel the man who can tell you what you had for breakfast , how much is your bank balance , the colour of your underwear but for a year he could not prophesize that Al Jazeera was undercover investigating him talking to him with hidden cameras and mics
A summary of #GoldMafia goes like this
Zimbabwean President is using gold smugglers trying to evade targeted sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the west .
Thabo Bester made people sing happy birthday to him pretending to be in New York while in prison 😩he addressed a whole delegates what kind of country it this ? Thread loading
Let's talk about the three people around Uebert Angel in that documentary , two black guys and the white guy, all these people are Uebert Angels relatives..this is how
I woke up thinking about my grandmother, Ruth Elizabeth Hawker. She was born in 1919 and lived in a time when women were not really expected to have their own lives. She taught me to be a difficult woman, in the best kind of way.
So wild to me that I was failing Accounting in my final year at Wits! Got less than 30% in my June exam…seeing bears 🫠 and now I’m on the cover on Accountancy SA. Don’t let people tell you “Heh Heh kae kae” go after what you want my loves! ❤️
JJ Tabane did ask him about his source of income late last year.
He says he only gets his salary from the ANC.
So this girlfriend allowance comes from there 🤭
Liquidator Cloete Murray and his son Thomas Murray who worked with him as a legal advisor have died following what appears to have been an assassination.
The Murray’s were exposing corruption that related to powerful working politicians in the Bosasa liquidation inquiry.
It was a cold, rainy morning, so I went to encourage and say goodbye to students that took the earliest shuttles to campus❤️ I went with over 100 chocolates and to my surprise, the shuttles were full I even ran out of chocolates! UCT students braved the weather and went to study!
Let me me take you through events of the Thabo Bester Story aka the Facebook rapist .
Late 2011 around October Thabo was wanted in connection with over 30 different cases involving fraud, theft, rape and murder.
Dear Lord,
Today, I prophesy goodness into this new week. The Lord will enlarge my capacity for increase. I receive my ability to conquer new territories. I’m blessed going out, and blessed coming in. It shall be a week of good news and pleasant surprises. In Jesus name. Amen🙏🏾