South Africa post 1994 : Quo vadis workers' education?: Quo vadis workers' education?

By Jessa, Fakier, Dr.

Book Id: WPLBN0100304175
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Reproduction Date: 7/29/2022

Title:	South Africa post 1994 : Quo vadis workers' education?: Quo vadis workers' education?
Author:	Jessa, Fakier, Dr.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Social Sciences, Worker representation
Collections:	Authors Community, Politics
Historic Publication Date:	2022
Publisher:	Self

Member Page:	Fakier Jessa
Citation APA MLA Chicago Fakier Jessa, B. D. (2022). South Africa post 1994 : Quo vadis workers' education?. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The book points out a path to workers' education and parliamentary representation in South Africa. While the book utilises socialist rhetoric, it does not espouse a socialist regime or open revolution - rather it emphasises bottom up engagement, open systems and collaboration.

Summary
The book delves deep into the neglect of the epistemological factors impacting on working class consciousness, their political astuteness and social progress in the Republic of South Africa (RSA), post 1994. The most glaring omissions in the RSA today, is the inferior general education of the working class, the absence of worker education programmes and civic education. Alas, the shift from apartheid to democratic rule has been characterised by financialisation, malfeasance at government level, the rise of the ‘new’ middle class and the prevailing neglect of addressing working class demands. The book calls for efficacy and rationale in the making of an astute, educated and conscientised working class, organisationally independent from the ruling party and its alliance.

Excerpt
"Workers of the RSA, from their ‘township-camps’, from abject social and economic conditions, brought the ANC to rule. Workers of the RSA have given the party the right to assume government for more than decades. In doing so, workers have suffered joblessness, deprivation and alienation from social relations enjoyed by the ever expanding middle class, i.e. the new corporate elite parading alongside their colonialist masters".

Table of Contents
BOOK ONE: Fundamentals 1 Workers, what place do you hold in the RSA economy 1 2 Workers’ ownership of economic power 12 3 Past and present regimes: What difference for workers in the RSA? 20 4 Political principles under the microscope 24 5 What ‘freedom struggle’? 35 6 The necessity for science and mathematics in worker education 46 7 RSA workers regarded with contempt 58 8 ‘Poverty trap’ - a capitalist expression 73 9 Workers against party and state 84 10 Phambili RSA workers! 94 Summary 100 BOOK TWO: Killing working class consciousness In the words of Leon Trotsky 102 Let’s make this point … 104 Introduction 107 11 Racism, stereotyping and prejudice 110 12 South African schooling betray workers! 119 13 SADTU has relinquished its independence to the Alliance 127 14 Working class scholars are alienated from IT and E-learning 137 15 Municipal councillors: A fine line between self-interest, party interests and public interest 143 16 The political responsibility of South African workers 152 17 The nature of conservative politics in South Africa 156 18 Killing working class consciousness in South Africa 166 19 SABC TV, radio and the Americanisation of the working class 171 20 Conclusion 183 Terminology explained 185