History panel needs to take a cold shower
The teaching of history in schools will always be a performative arena for petty, partisan politics of the worst kind.
And so it was that last week at parliament’s portfolio committee on basic education, a department official reported on the work of a history panel appointed by the previous minister (Angie Motshekga, now at defence; focus please people)...
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