Times Of Swaziland: Thank you Disgusted Teacher

Thank you Disgusted Teacher
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The Editor on 17/05/2010 00:00:00


Sir,
Mr Editor allow me to pass my sincere thanks to the disgusted teacher from
Phumelele International School owned by a bosom friend to the state minister Mr.
Wilson Ntshangase.
It has been a long time since I raised my concerns about this private school and
nobody has been taking note of it. It fills my heart with joy if someone from
within them comes out to state that things are just chaotic and should raise the
eyebrows of every reader is the fact that even the one which the minister
claimed was legal and fine is champion in terms of being illegal.
Mr Editor with the hope that you are aware of the fact that in our ill-governed
kingdom we  have the Registration of Private Schools Act of 2008 please allow me
to justify my stand by just visiting Phumelele International School in your
imagination.
How big is the ground inside the school or rather can it be just a single
hectare? Consider the enrolment of the school.
How far is the school from the Matsapha Central Business District? After all
there is a busy filling station and a car wash just at the gate of the school
which I suppose Ntshangase uses time to time when he visits the school owner.
What about the houses to let which the so called perfect school is between? Are
they hostels? Even hostels Mr. Editor as far as regulations permit their
existence are not supposed to be so close to the classrooms.
What about the numerous pupils who were admitted just the week before schools
closed for the first vacation? Were they accompanied by any letters either from
their previous school or from the Regional Educations Officers desk mandating
Phumelele to admit them? What if through producing substantial evidence I could
claim that those pupils are never high school pupils but dropped out from
primary level a couple of years ago and had been used by one of those fake,
unjust, and ill minded so called pastors to meet his own ends after he had duly
managed to make a private school for himself?
Their admission into the centre raises numerous unanswerable and grave
questions.
Before I unravel more Mr. Editor, tell me is there any sense of honesty within
our education minister remembering his proclamation on this school as excellent
beyond normal standard?
Does Mr Ntshangase deserve to revisit Phumelele International School or he has
to visit his children at home and just stay with them till he is honest enough
to hold the office of being minister.
After all the school he was managing before he was a minister was a black belt
holder on external examination ill performance and now believe me Mr.Editor
unless something is done Swazi education is going to crumble completely.
Was Mr. Gcina Mthethwa (People and places at Channel S - April 29, 2010) right
then when he said he was shocked as to why the government authorities who are
his friends didn’t offer him a good job? Was this the case with Ntshangase who
bluntly proved himself to have none of leadership qualities when he was still
principal but that was overlooked when he was exalted to be minister.
To this disgusted teacher of Phumelele International School thank you for being
another person to challenge the decision of Mr. Ntshangase to say that school is
perfect.
However what I can say to you is one former member of parliament and cabinet
minister or to sum it up for precision purposes, Mr Mahlaba Mamba taught me
during my times as his pupil never to raise the alarm when I am naked regardless
of how much I am being attacked, lest people come and laugh at my nudity instead
of helping me out.
To be honest Mr. Editor only a few qualified teachers can work for these ill
centres called private schools and that’s one of the things annoying about
Ntshangase. He claimed that all the staff at Phumelele was qualified yet to be
honest a majority of them are ‘O’Level graduates.
Thank you Mr Editor
CLARITY T.
MATSAPHA