13/11/2023

DIJO202 - Digital Journalism (DUT) 

Interview with Democratic Alliance
KwaZulu-Natal 2024 candidate & Umgeni

Mayor, Chris Pappas.

Link: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lua3zIOFAHevyNc4mydRI8bzqBFEatiY/view?usp=sharing

14/9/23
TEJO202 - Television Journalism (DUT), Assignment 1
South Africa’s Outdated Education System

A collection of still images, video and extended interview clips at Ogwini Comprehensive Technical High School in Umlazi, Durban. Commenced as a university assignement to look into the public schooling system in South Africa. Which, sadly like a lot of things here still struggles with the lingering inequality created by Apartheid.



Following the end of white-minority rule, the newly elected ANC had the task of combining multiple education systems that stemmed from the racist ‘Bantu Education Act’ of 1953 - segregation laws that divided access to education by racial ethnicity. The complicated and racist system had to be dismantled and amalgamated into a singular education department - for all South Africans. This resulted in the quintile system, a funding structure to organise schools on a scale of 1 to 5, with those at the top (4&5) being the least poor and those in quintile 1-3 being the poorest. Although, the mammoth task of combining all these education departments; inherited from a racist regime was overcome initially, the 30-year-old system has since become outdated, underfunded and emblematic of the poor contemporary public infrastructure in the country.



I also interviewed to Dr. Marshall Tamuka Maposa, a senior lecturer and Education Historian at the University of KwaZulu-Natal who explained its genesis, but now archaic system and the problematic national conscience around public
infrastructure following decades of oppressive governance.