English
Just over a year ago we came together as concerned South
Africans, committed to public education, to issue a
Call for public
participation in education. Yet as the year passed we saw little progress in
overcoming the challenges facing our education system. Poor South Africans have
placed their hope in education, since the social system, as it exists, seems to
be a dead-end for most people. It remains a fact, though, that our system of
education is in a crisis and is failing our children. If left unaddressed this
will not only undermine any potential for economic and social development, but
also the vibrancy of our democracy.
Afrikaans
‘n Bietjie meer
as ‘n jaar gelede het ons as besorgde Suid-Afrikaners wat tot die openbare
onderwys verbind is, bymekaar gekom om ‘n beroep vir publieke deelname in die
onderwys te doen. Maar soos die jaar verbygegaan het, het ons bra min vordering
rakende die uitdagings aan die stelsel gesien. Arme Suid-Afrikaners het hul
vertroue in die onderwys geplaas, aangesien die sosiale stelsel, soos dit nou
is, op die oog af vir hulle ‘n doodloopstraat is. Dit bly steeds ‘n feit dat
ons onderwysstelsel in ‘n krisis verkeer en ons kinders benadeel. As ons
hierdie saak nie onmiddelik en doeltreffend aanspreek nie, sal dit nie net alle
potensiaal vir ekonomiese en maatskaplikke ontwikkeling in die wiele ry nie,
maar ook die lewensvatbaarheid van ons demokrasie ondergrawe.
Xhosa
Sele kukangangonyaka
apho sathi
sadibana kunye singangabemi baseMzantsi
Afrika abaxhalabileyo ngenkqubo yezemfundo kawonke-wonke nalapho sathi
sahlaba
ikhwelo lentshukumo likawonke-wonke
kwezemfundo. Nangona unyaka ugqithile akubangakho nkqubela phambili ingako yokumelana
nemiceli-mngeni esijongene nayo kwinkqubo yezemfundo.
Abantu abahluphekileyo babeke ithemba labo
kwezemfundo kuba inkqubo yezentlalo esinayo ikhangeleka njengefadaleleyo
kubantu abaninzi.
Iyinyaniso yona into
yokuba inkqubo yethu yezemfundo iyingxubakaxaka kwaye ayilolutho ebantwaneni
bethu. Ukuba akujongwana nayo, oku akuzokujongela phantsi uphuhliso lwezoqoqosho
nelezentlalo kuphela, koko kuya kujongela phantsi ukusebenza kwedemokhrasi
yethu.
Sepedi
Ngwageng woo
o fitilego re ile ra kopana bjalo ka ma-Afrika Borwa ao a ikemišeditšego go fetola
seemo sa thuto sa dikolo tša mmušo go dira kgopelo ya gore setšhaba se tšee
karolo kgahlanong le boemo bja thuto. Eupša le ge ngwaga o fedile re bone
phetogo e nnyane go mathata ao a lebanego le thuto ya dikolo tša mmušo.