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Jonathan Jansen Calls For Government Declaration of Crisis in Education

by Lindsay on Oct 3rd, 2012
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Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State and author of several books, most recently Letters to My Children: Tweets to Make You Think, delivered the fifth annual Imam Haron Lecture on Tuesday 2 October.

The talk, organised by the Imam Abdullah Haron Education Trust, is held to commemorate Haron, a Muslim activist who was killed in police custody during apartheid. Jansen paid tribute to Haron, who fought for equality for all and was committed to the cause of education. Jansen’s speech, titled “Has tolerance not a limit?” which is a line from one of Haron’s speeches, focused on the state of education in South Africa, which he says is reaching a breaking point.

Jansen called on the government to declare a state of crisis in education and asked that individuals do their part to try and improve the education system. The Mail & Guardian‘s Chantall Presence and Rebecca Davis from the Daily Maverick reported on the event:

Speaking at the fifth memorial Imam Abdullah Haron lecture in Salt River, Jansen called on every sector of society, especially the faith-based community, to demand that government declare a crisis in education.

“Why should we tolerate this?” he asked, referring to the gap between the schools of the privileged and the poor which remained constant despite many political and policy interventions.

The name of Imam Abdullah Haron is not heard as often as it deserves to be these days. Haron, born in 1924 in Cape Town, was a Muslim cleric of unprecedentedly brave and progressive ideals. Haron established the Claremont Muslim Youth Association and the Muslim News monthly newspaper, and used both forums to circulate his forward-thinking ideas about Islam and South African society. Haron established close ties with activists like the PAC’s Robert Sobukwe, the Black Sash’s Eulalie Stott, Alex la Guma and Albie Sachs, and he also played a major role in consolidating Muslim-Christian relationships in Cape Town.

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