GALOOME SHOPANE Helen Zille’s praises of Education Minister Angie Motshekga “are just a political gimmick.” This is according to South African Democratic Teachers’ Union’s Secretary General Mugwena Maluleke.
His statement comes after Zille wrote to the Cape Argus saying that Motshekga is the first national minister to prescribe a self-evident policy, by instructing that by 2014 every child in every classroom should have a good textbook for every subject. Zille said Motshekga did what she was supposed to do by setting “policies, frameworks, norms and standards” for textbook delivery.
In the opinion piece, Zille says “the problem is that she [Motshekga] can’t get any of these policies implemented without sufficient capacity in the provinces and the co-operation of Sadtu.
Responding to the Western Cape premier, Maluleke says” Zille is simply trying to score political points.”
“We know where Zille’s mind is at now. Everything to her is about political point scoring,” says Maluleke.
Maluleke says they do not take her [Zille] seriously, “we think that she has to have her mind examined.”
Maluleke says Zille once “opposed the president, when the president wanted to appoint her [Motshekga] as minister, and for her to all of the sudden change her mind on the basis that people are going to be fooled, they are not going to be fooled.”
Maluleke says they are still calling for "Motshekga to hand in her resignation as she failed to fire her ‘allegedly’ corrupt Director General," Bobby Soobrayan.
