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NAMAKWA DISTRIKSMUNISIPALITEIT VEREER
SKOLE VIR PRESTASIES
Isaac Cloete
Die Namakwa Distriks Munisipaliteit op Springbok het onlangs weer sy
verbintenis tot gehalte onderwys gedemomstreer deur die streek se top
skole te vereeer tydens „n funksie te Concordia.
Op hierdie wyse het die harde werk van die ses substreke binne die Namakwa
Distriks Munisipaliteit (NDM) nie ongesiens verby gegaan nie, want die
Namakwa streek was weer die beste in die Noord-Kaap, wat slaagpersentasie
betref.
Volgens, me. Madeleinne Brandt, munisipale bestuurder van die NDM, was die
doel van die byeenkoms om enersyds die vyf topskole te bedank vir hul
uitstekende prestasies en andersyds om daardie skole te motiveer wat nie na
wense gepresteer het nie.
Verskeie sprekers het kans gekry om hul uit te spreek oor die onderwys binne
die NDM.So byvoorbeeld het mnr. Danna Boyce, kampushoof van die
Namakwaland Kampus op Okiep, uitgewei oor die vaktoetssentrum wat
volgende jaar in bedryf gaan kom.
Hy het „n beroep op veral hoofde gedoen om te help met leerders se
vakkeuses in gr.9.Hy die Kampus beskou as „n verlengstuk van die hoërskole
en gepleit dat daar saam gewerk moet word.
Met verwysende na die matriekuitsale van 2011 het mnr Christo Cloete
(kringbestuurder) gesê dat die Dep. van Onderwys 2012 beskou as “Die jaar
van vasvat.” Hy het hom sterk uitgespreek teenoor skole waar dissipline nie
sigbaar is nie.“Die departement het slaagteikens, maar ook vakteikens gestel,
daarom moet ons as onderwysvennote hande vat om dit te bereik.”
Cloete het ten slotte gesê dat die dep „n beduidende verbetering verwag in
2012 se uitslae en niks minder nie.
Die speaker van die NDM, mnr Bently Vass, was die gasspreker.Hy het sy
trots en dankbaarheid uitgespreek teenoor alle rolspelers soos die ouers,
beheerrade, opvoeders en departementele amptenare vir die pragtige uitslae
in die Namakwa distrik.
“Leerders moet laat verstaan word dat dissiplines soos, Wiskunde, Wetenskap
en Kuns hul rigtings moet wees, want „n nuwe hoofstuk het vir ons almal
begin.”
Vass het ook versoek dat ons ten minste moet probeer om mekaar se taal,
kultuur en verlede te verstaan soda t ons die streek se onderwyspeil kan
verbeter.
Voor die uitvoerende burgemeester van die NDM, mnr. Frank van den Heever,
gehelp het met die oorhandiging van die trofees en sertifikate het hy nog goeie
nuus aangekondig.
“Die NDM gaan vyf leerders van die vyf top skole borg om die winterskool van
Die Burger in Junie-maand by te gaan woon. Verdienstelikheid in die Junieeksamen
gaan die enigste kriteria wees.”
Die vyf top skole vir 2011:
1. Hoërskool Namakwaland;
2. Frazenburg Gekombineerde Hoërskool;
3. Concordia Sekondêre Skool;
4. Steinkopf Sekondêre Skool en
5. Hoërskool Calvinia
1 ste: Hoërskool Namakwaland
3 de: Concordia Sekondêre Skool
4 de: Steinkopf Sekondêre Skool
Child rape a very serious problem
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The Democratic Alliance is up in arms about the ongoing
scourge of rape in the Northern Cape. This is in response to a
media report on a series of child rapes. I will thus today be
resubmitting a parliamentary question on when the provincial
anti-rape strategy will be presented to the legislature. This
comes after I passed a motion in the house last year that it
should be presented and debated as a matter of urgency. We
are, however, still waiting!
It is estimated that nationally around 30 000 children per year
are victims of sexual abuse. This is a clear indication that the
ANC is failing to protect our children both nationally and
provincially. Other examples include: the establishment of a
Child Protection Register, which is intended to protect children
from sex offenders, but contains only 22 names and cost R1,8
million to develop; the Department of Social Development has
thus kept a dismal record of convictions for sexual offences
against children under the age of 16. The above is in direct
contravention of section 114 of the Children‟s Act.
Furthermore, on a national scale there are 33 391 cases
awaiting investigation by social workers. The department needs
to do a comprehensive analysis of why this shortage of social
workers exists, and it needs to come up with a long-term
solution. This should include making it a priority to retain
qualified social workers and incentivizing people to consider
social work as a career. In our province it will also entail
changing the department‟s funding model, as more money is
needed to properly fund formal NGO‟s, so that they can pay
professional fees to social workers.
In our province, the DA further believes that part of the reason
that there remains minimal impact on the occurrence of rape is
that existing programmes and projects across departments are
not monitored and evaluated. It is precisely for this reason that
we suggested the establishment of a violence prevention hub
last year – an entity that will provide professional services to
women and children affected by violence by integrating what
exists but also moving beyond into the fields of rehabilitation,
support for both victims and offenders and engaging in the
concepts of femininity and masculinity. We also suggested that a
crucial component ought to be supervision and monitoring and
evaluation of existing activities.
Last but not least, is the matter of the still outstanding provincial
Anti-Rape Strategy. How many children still have to be raped
before we stop planning and start taking action?
Karen de Kock, MPL DA Northern Cape: Leader
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the
things which he has not, but rejoices for
those which he has.
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