8 THURSDAY JUNE 9 2011 NEWS Level of Efforts to register crèches intensify education the new Social Development looking at ways to make it easier for daycare centres to comply ‘struggle’

NATASHA BEZUIDENHOUT tration drive, said they aimed fire inspectors would not regis- was declared by former Social She said she had already the centres, but to protect the as mattresses and blankets. Staff Reporter to get all unregistered facilities ter crèches in Wendy houses Development MEC and now started the process of register- children, ensuring that their Daycare centre owners NATASHA PRINCE registered by that time. and shacks. And, at the mom- mayor Patricia De Lille. It ing her crèche and that fire and environment was safe. In addi- from Philippi, , Staff Reporter THE DEPARTMENT of Social “We are working with the ent, if a facility does not have excludes ccrèches that opened health inspectors had already tion, he told owners that if they Nyanga, , Cross- Development is looking at ways City of to look at a toilets, health inspectors would after February 1. visited her facility. The only registered they could apply for roads, Strand, and THE RECTOR and vice-chan- to make registration for un- new process to make registra- not sign it off.” Lisa Mbali, who owns a hold up was that it was housed a subsidy for each child. voiced concerns cellor of the University of the registered daycare centres tion simpler,” he said, explain- He said the department was crèche in Lower Crossroads, in a bungalow. “If your facility qualifies, with the registration process. , Brian O’Con- easier as the July 31 deadline ing that they were negotiating looking at allowing such facili- was concerned that her facility Scullard told the crèches you will get R12 a child a day.” Some said they could not nell, has urged school princi- nears. with city authorities to allow ties to operate using buckets. would not be registered due to owners that if they were in the Some parents could not complete their forms as they pals to fight as they did during Addressing hundreds of crèches in Wendy houses, “The process is going to the the criteria for a registered process of registering by the afford fees, so the subsidy would did not have erf numbers. the liberation Struggle to erad- crèche centre owners yesterday shacks and containers to be council meeting in September, daycare centre. end of July, they would not be help keep facilities going. There are 1 718 unregistered icate deteriorating standards at the Early Childhood Devel- registered. In many of these and must still be approved,” “The regulations state that shut down, even if they did Scullard explained that half daycare centres in the Western of students entering universi- opment Centre in Gugulethu, cases, the stumbling blocks Scullard said. those who have crèches inside not yet have registration the subsidy should go towards Cape. Of these, about 142 have ties. Caesar Scullard, the Depart- were the lack of toilet facilities The amnesty period for a bungalow, or zinc structures certificates. buying food for the children, registered since the amnesty O’Connell also encouraged ment of Social Development’s and outside play areas. unregistered daycare centres, and containers will not be He added that the registra- with the remainder paying announcement. principals to “take ownership” project manager for the regis- “Many health, building and which started on February 1, registered.” tion process was not to police staff and providing items such [email protected] of their schools, and to get their communities’ backing to improve education at primary and secondary schools. Speaking at the launch yes- terday of the Community of Learning Principals at UWC, Coalition speaks for O’Connell pointed to figures highlighted in the National Benchmark Tests Projects that victims who were showed a drop in the quality of students equipped to enter universities. The Community of Learning Principals brings not part of the TRC Cape Town principals together to engage around educational issues. O’Connell’s audience NEO MADITLA 10 000 yesterday were Mafu- included more than 100 princi- Staff Reporter kusa Siphika, 67, Kate Ncisana, pals, as well as representatives 65, and Mali Hoza, 69. of education-related organisa- A COALITION of civil organi- Siphika and Hoza said they tions, all debating and ques- sations representing victims of decided not to go to the TRC, tioning how to improve the apartheid has described the even though they were invited, quality of schooling. new Department of Justice and because of the manner in Professor Chris Tapscott, Constitutional Development which they were approached. dean of the faculty of economic regulations as “flimsy” and Siphika said he experienced management sciences, which “unconstitutional”, because apartheid as a leader of a hosted the event, said “no they only address the needs of group of people. He was invited school is an island” and that victims who were part of the to the TRC as an individual, every school faced different Truth and Reconciliation Com- which excluded everyone he challenges. mission (TRC). had led. The Philippi resident But what was without doubt There were more than 10 000 said he led his group to and was that students’ performance members of the South African from Zambia in 1988, where at tertiary institutions was Coalition for Transitional Jus- they met Oliver Tambo. On determined by the primary and tice, Human Rights Media Cen- their return they were tortured secondary schools they tre director Shirley Gunn told a by police who “threatened us attended. “If these youngsters press conference in the city yes- and asked us where our are not properly prepared for terday, and not even 2 percent of weapons were”. university, we should look at them had gone to the TRC. They were often fetched by what we can do,” said Tapscott. The coalition included civil the police and beaten up in O’Connell spoke of the days society groups the Khulumani front of their wives and chil- of the Struggle, and how people Support Group, the Centre for dren and he had seen people fought with vigour, protested the Study of Violence & Recon- being hanged in front of him. and were organised. ciliation, the Freedom of Ex- Siphika has spent time in “Since 1994, we at UWC have pression Institute and the the Valkenberg Psychiatric LEFT OUT: Kate Ncisana, who took part in the 1982 hunger strike in St George’s Cathedral, discusses the failure of General Notice 282 to cater to everyone who was received students far less pre- Human Rights Media Centre. Hospital as a result of the a victim of gross human rights violations during the apartheid era. Looking on are, from left, Richard Records and Kenneth Lukuko, both members of the SA Coalition pared,” he said. Their submission, Gunn trauma he endured. for Transitional Justice. PICTURE: CANDICE CHAPLIN “We’re the only university said, was in response to the “Since democracy, some in the world where a student May 11, 2010 General Notice 282 have climbed the ladder while fails first year, pays R40 000 and and its “flimsy regulations”. we are still in the same condi- Hoza said he was in the people he had led then still month-old baby, who was with tims of apartheid, while offer- to register. The process in then we take them back the Gunn said the regulations tions we were in before the Eastern Cape when the invita- looked to him for answers. her. Ncisana, who like Hoza ing extended amnesty periods closed in 1997. next year,” he said. meant money set aside by the Struggle,” he said. tion to attend the TRC came, “They experienced so many lives in Site C, said she was to perpetrators. One of its rec- The coalition also recom- Debate and objections were President’s Fund to benefit During apartheid he did not and he also missed his chance hardships and I feel responsi- grateful she had a house, but ommendations was that the mend that money in the Presi- spurred as O’Connell put pres- apartheid victims in respect of have the chance to raise and to tell his story of what hap- ble,” he said. most others who “were with us department should consider dent’s Fund be administered sure on principals. educational assistance and educate his children and “now pened in Crossroads when he Ncisana was one of 56 people still live in shacks”. following the examples of with the help of civil society to “Why is there no outrage health benefits would “con- we have no means to educate led a 1981 group to protest who took part in the 1982 In the submission, the coali- Sierra Leone, Brazil and every victim of gross human about schools? Why aren’t our tinue to provide only for those them either and the cycle of against the pass laws. hunger strike in St George’s tion said the new regulations Guatemala, where there was an rights violations, not only those parents getting involved?” he people who went to the TRC”. poverty continues from genera- Hoza, who lives in a shack in Cathedral. By the 18th day, she were unconstitutional and en- extended process for every vic- who were part of the TRC. asked. Representing the more than tion to generation”. Site C in Khayelitsha, said the was too weak to lift her eight- croached on the rights of vic- tim of human rights violations [email protected] [email protected]

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