Date: 05/10/2005
Source: Mpumalanga Provincial Government
Title: Masango: World Teachers Day celebration
Address by the MEC for Education, Mr Siphosezwe Masango, on the occasion of the World Teachers’ Day Celebration, Eskom Park, Witbank
Programme Director
Executive Mayor of Emalahleni Municipality, Clr Glory Dlamini
Acting Head of Department
Colleagues from the Department
Educator Formations
Representatives from SACE
Educators
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
We are on course to educate the nation!
I am filled with a great sense of pleasure and appreciation to be present at this very important occasion today.
I stand up today and proudly join thousands of educators in Mpumalanga and the whole world over to celebrate this important today.
Today is a World Teacher’s Day, which is celebrated annually throughout the world. On 5 October 1966, a giant step forward regarding teachers was made by the international community.
A Special Intergovernmental Conference adopted a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisations (UNESCO)/International Labour Organisation (ILO) Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.
The Recommendation gave the teachers an instrument that defines their responsibilities and which asserts their rights. In adopting the Recommendation, governments of the world recognised the importance of every society of having competent qualified and motivated teachers.
The World Teachers’ Day is a special day chosen to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to educators for their hard work, dedication and most importantly the huge challenges they face in educating our children to become better citizens of tomorrow.
It is a day where we applaud the endless efforts exerted by our brothers and sisters in the noble profession to educate the nation. It is a time to express friendship and solidarity in order enhance the status of the teaching profession. It is also a time to focus and reflect on the difficulties and many challenges confronting educators.
The Mpumalanga Department of Education would like to take this precious opportunity to:
* Salute the masses of educators, past and present who have dedicated themselves to the profession.
* Emphasise the crucial and indispensable role that all educators play in the development of individuals and the society as a whole.
* Acknowledge the professional commitment demonstrated by all educators.
* Show solidarity with educators in the rest of Africa and globally.
A special tribute goes to all those patriots who have made sacrifices towards the transformation of the education system and the country as a whole.
Today’s celebration must be an acknowledgement of our determination to raise awareness in the quest for unhindered and effective teaching and learning in our schools. As educators we need to expose all factors that constitute a hindrance to the effective delivery of quality teaching/ learning in our schools.
As educators we must be encouraged to harness our resources to effectively and vigorously deal with the scourge of sexual and child abuse, victimisation, crime, drug abuse and gangsterism which is fast becoming an inextricable part of our schools.
In so doing, we would genuinely be contributing to the restoration of human dignity and individual respect for each one of us.
A vast majority of our teachers are professionals of note who are dedicated to their call in the face of almost indescribable constraints and odds.
We cannot stretch our imagination to comprehend how a teacher in a disadvantage rural community is able to cope with an overcrowded classroom, insufficient teaching/learning aids, no running water, no electricity and yet prepares thoroughly to enable learners to learn under these unacceptable conditions to pass the final exam. We salute those teachers for their sacrifice which is indeed an act of patriotism.
Teaching is a long tentacled profession which touches every aspect of our lives in one way or another. It is a national cradle through which everyone of us passes. It is therefore proper to say that it is the only profession that manufactures and shapes the destiny of our country. We should be petting ourselves on our backs.
The legacy we have just emerged from eleven years ago is accompanied by a litany of challenges facing our education system. Educators are strategically significant in helping to improve our education for the better. Similarly, there is a need to improve the integrity and dignity of our noble profession.
History has told us how education was used by the previous apartheid regime to ensure a continued superiority and domination over black people.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, let us increasingly open the doors of learning and culture to all, thereby using education to further entrench freedom and democracy in the country.
I wish you happiness and fulfilment in your career. The reality to better the lives of our people through education has long dawned and it is a challenge which all our educators must live up to.
Ayihlome Ifunde!
Issued by: Department of Education,
Mpumalanga Provincial Government 5 October 2005
Source: Mpumalanga Provincial Government
Title: Masango: World Teachers Day celebration
Address by the MEC for Education, Mr Siphosezwe Masango, on the occasion of the World Teachers’ Day Celebration, Eskom Park, Witbank
Programme Director
Executive Mayor of Emalahleni Municipality, Clr Glory Dlamini
Acting Head of Department
Colleagues from the Department
Educator Formations
Representatives from SACE
Educators
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
We are on course to educate the nation!
I am filled with a great sense of pleasure and appreciation to be present at this very important occasion today.
I stand up today and proudly join thousands of educators in Mpumalanga and the whole world over to celebrate this important today.
Today is a World Teacher’s Day, which is celebrated annually throughout the world. On 5 October 1966, a giant step forward regarding teachers was made by the international community.
A Special Intergovernmental Conference adopted a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisations (UNESCO)/International Labour Organisation (ILO) Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers.
The Recommendation gave the teachers an instrument that defines their responsibilities and which asserts their rights. In adopting the Recommendation, governments of the world recognised the importance of every society of having competent qualified and motivated teachers.
The World Teachers’ Day is a special day chosen to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to educators for their hard work, dedication and most importantly the huge challenges they face in educating our children to become better citizens of tomorrow.
It is a day where we applaud the endless efforts exerted by our brothers and sisters in the noble profession to educate the nation. It is a time to express friendship and solidarity in order enhance the status of the teaching profession. It is also a time to focus and reflect on the difficulties and many challenges confronting educators.
The Mpumalanga Department of Education would like to take this precious opportunity to:
* Salute the masses of educators, past and present who have dedicated themselves to the profession.
* Emphasise the crucial and indispensable role that all educators play in the development of individuals and the society as a whole.
* Acknowledge the professional commitment demonstrated by all educators.
* Show solidarity with educators in the rest of Africa and globally.
A special tribute goes to all those patriots who have made sacrifices towards the transformation of the education system and the country as a whole.
Today’s celebration must be an acknowledgement of our determination to raise awareness in the quest for unhindered and effective teaching and learning in our schools. As educators we need to expose all factors that constitute a hindrance to the effective delivery of quality teaching/ learning in our schools.
As educators we must be encouraged to harness our resources to effectively and vigorously deal with the scourge of sexual and child abuse, victimisation, crime, drug abuse and gangsterism which is fast becoming an inextricable part of our schools.
In so doing, we would genuinely be contributing to the restoration of human dignity and individual respect for each one of us.
A vast majority of our teachers are professionals of note who are dedicated to their call in the face of almost indescribable constraints and odds.
We cannot stretch our imagination to comprehend how a teacher in a disadvantage rural community is able to cope with an overcrowded classroom, insufficient teaching/learning aids, no running water, no electricity and yet prepares thoroughly to enable learners to learn under these unacceptable conditions to pass the final exam. We salute those teachers for their sacrifice which is indeed an act of patriotism.
Teaching is a long tentacled profession which touches every aspect of our lives in one way or another. It is a national cradle through which everyone of us passes. It is therefore proper to say that it is the only profession that manufactures and shapes the destiny of our country. We should be petting ourselves on our backs.
The legacy we have just emerged from eleven years ago is accompanied by a litany of challenges facing our education system. Educators are strategically significant in helping to improve our education for the better. Similarly, there is a need to improve the integrity and dignity of our noble profession.
History has told us how education was used by the previous apartheid regime to ensure a continued superiority and domination over black people.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, let us increasingly open the doors of learning and culture to all, thereby using education to further entrench freedom and democracy in the country.
I wish you happiness and fulfilment in your career. The reality to better the lives of our people through education has long dawned and it is a challenge which all our educators must live up to.
Ayihlome Ifunde!
Issued by: Department of Education,
Mpumalanga Provincial Government 5 October 2005
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