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Motshedisi Mathibe

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Motshedisi Mathibe

Dr Motshedisi Mathibe is a senior lecturer at Gordon Institute of Business Sciences.

The increase in learners is exacerbated by people relocating to Gauteng, and private-public partnerships are required to address overcrowding. File photo
EDUCATION

Prepare schools to develop entrepreneurial skills

Introducing creative problem-solving to the curriculum will help develop learners’ skills to find solutions to pressing problems

  • Ntsaphokazi Madyibi
  • Motshedisi Mathibe
6 min read
Some schools are in areas characterised by violence, drug abuse and moral degeneration. For its part, the department of basic education has enacted a Guide to Drug Testing in South African Schools and School and Regulations For Safety Measures at Public Schools to ensure that our schools are safer. (Jekesai Njikizana/AFP)
EDUCATION

Do we want schools to babysit our children for 12 years or to teach them?

Schools do have the responsibility to assume some of the parents’ responsibilities but does not seek to replace the role of parents

  • Hamandawana Zhou
  • Motshedisi Mathibe
8 min read
CONSTITUTION

Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?

Fair discrimination requires all South Africans to have an equal chance to meet the minimum standard to access institutions of higher education

  • Motshedisi Mathibe
  • Hamandawana Zhou
7 min read