The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) condemns the bully tactics of the Free State Education Department, which has unilaterally decided to withhold a portion of public schools’ resource allocations without proper consultation or notifying the relevant schools and their governing bodies.
The Freedom Front Plus demands an explanation for why these funds are being withheld from the Free State MEC for Education, Mamiki Maboya.
According to FEDSAS, seven of the nine provincial Education Departments have not paid out public schools’ full resource allocations. In the Free State, only a portion of the funds has been transferred.
Schools have responsibilities, particularly with regard to teaching and learning materials, and cannot afford to have unilateral decisions disrupting their financial planning and daily operations.
What is particularly alarming is that the affected schools and their governing bodies were not informed that these funds would be withheld.
This turn of events confirms the VF Plus’s fears that the new BELA Act affords the Education Department too much power while curtailing the powers of governing bodies.
The VF Plus will keep pressuring the Department in an effort to reverse the serious implications of this decision and ensure that schools receive the funds they are entitled to.
Freedom Front Plus Name Change: The party changed its name to Freedom Front Plus in 2003.
Alley Fiend
A South African, an Australian and an Englishman are all having a drink
The Englishman and South African both drink from Pint Glasses, the Australian from a bottle.
The South African, upon draining his glass, drops in back down on the bar, pulls out a pistol, and shoots the glass.
\”In South Africa, there is so much sand that I never drink from the same glass twice!\”
The Australian, having drained his bottle, sets it down upon the bar and, upon seizing the South African\’s pistol, shoots his bottle.
\”In Australia, there is so much booze that I never drink from the same brand twice!\”
The Englishman, likewise having drained his glass, sets his glass upon the table, seizes the pistol the pistol from the Australian, and shoots the South African and the Australian, quite dead.
\”In England, there are so many of you bastards that I never drink with the same two twice!\”
Pepper Legs
Gogga – bug [ch-o-cha] The ‘g’ is pronounced as ‘ch’ in the back of the throat (think Scottish “Loch”) and is used to describe a bug or insect.