Should condoms be distributed in high schools?



 

Choice free condom issued by the
Government: source



My answer to this question is that; yes condoms should be distributed in high schools. We as a society need to face the reality that high school pupils are having sex inside the school premises without using protection. Let us forget about the law that is prohibiting 16 years old from having sexual intercourse and deal with this issue.  

The distribution of condoms in high schools is causing a legal snag because the law prohibits 16 years old from having sexual intercourse. I do not understand this how can the law prohibits 16 years old from having sexual intercourse and then allow 12 year old to have abortions.  Do you think that this is a valid reason or it is just an excuse not wanting to provide condoms to high school pupils? 

The soon-to-be-launched Integrated School Health Programme. In high schools, I think that it is a good idea that needs to be taken into consideration fast. The reason why I am saying that this is a good initiative is because the pogramme is going to offer a basket of services which including HIV counseling and testing, education on sexual and reproductive health, and the provision of condoms for the high school pupils.

Our high school pupil’s need this programme and the government should consider changing the law before it is too late.

Is there a need for streets to be renamed?

The unveiling of the Steve Biko drive
Bandile Biko, Helen Zele, Belinda Brett.source

I think that there is no need for streets to be renamed. The government is wasting money on renaming the streets. Who cares what the name of the streets is, as long as there is a name on the street, then there is no problem.

 The Cape Town mayor Patricia De Lille unveiled the new name of NY1 road in Gugulethu on the 24^th of September, which was renamed the Steve Biko Drive. "This was because it replaced terms from the past, associated with inferiority, with names associated with power. “In the old road name, the NY refers to 'native yard'. "What was

unique in South Africa and the Black Consciousness movement was the mobilisation around asserting in the face of history for freedom. “This involved breaking down the "'mental prison" built through semantic means to emancipate the minds of black South Africans, said De Lille. I am against the renaming of the street; because if we are going to change everything from the past; I believe that we will not have history to tell about our past, people should know what is the NY , why the street was named NY, and where the NY street is.

Gugulethu is known for always striking for poor service delivery, therefore I think that, the money that was spent on the renaming of that street could have been spent on the things that the community needs the most. I am not against the fact that they are honouring our past heroes but I feel that we have done enough to honor them. The is a lot of people who were also put of the struggle but they are not being honoured i think that they are the ones who deserves to be honoured. What is your say on this?  

The Freebie Nation



COSATU's proposal for remission is going to
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South Africans have become lazy to do anything for themselves, because they believe that it is the duty of the government to provide each and everything for us. There is nothing wrong with the government providing us with free houses, water grand and education but we cannot expect the government to give us everything for free. Ever since South Africa has turned into a freebie nation, people do not want to do anything for them because they know that the government will provide for them for free.

I disagree with COSATU proposal of wanting R200 000 remissions from the government to help all South Africans who have being blacklisted read more . The reason why I disagree with this proposal is because there are people who are really suffering and that money could be used to help those people instead of paying for debts that people got themselves into welling.



If the government is going to pay for people’s debts, next time the government will be paying us clothes. The government is already providing too much for the people and the sad part is that people who really need help from the government do not get help. 

Enough is enough; it is time for this to come to an end people need to do things for themselves because this freebie scheme has gone too far. 

What is Julius Malema up to now?

First it was the anti-Mbeki campaign now it’s the anti-Zuma campaign. The anti-Mbeki campaign against our former president Thabo Mbeki was successful the question is will the anti Zuma campaign be successful too?  My advice to Malema is that he needs to accept that Jacob Zuma is the president of this country weather he likes it or not.   

on the 13 September Julius Malema was at the Lenasia Recreation Centre, south of Johannesburg  addressing the soldiers that were placed on special leave in 2009 for protesting at the union building.  What was supposed to be an addressing meeting turned into an anti-campaign against the president because he believes that the country’s confidence in its leadership needs to be rebuilt. What I want to know is that all along while he was part of the of the Africa National Congress (ANC) did he not see that the leadership needed to be rebuild and why didn’t he fix this problem because he was also part of leadership read more.

He also status that; “our Commander in Chief [Zuma] is engaged in other things such getting married every year “Here, children don’t have books, people in hospitals don’t have the necessary machines, and they don’t have roads or clean water.” We cannot blame the President for everything that is going wrong in this country because there are people who are assigned to make sure that all schools have books and all hospitals have the necessary machines that is needed it is the president’s job. I have to say that is about time someone put Julius in his place because enough is enough he want to keep on coursing trouble and he does not have respect for the president. 

All the reasons that Malema has provided; it is quite clear that he is doing this anti-campaign against the president because he wants to remove the president even though he claims that he is not planning to remove any government undemocratically. Yes, we don’t love this leadership... we want to remove it democratically,”

A strike turned in to a deadly zone

 

The National Union Of Mine Workers log
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I hope that organisations will learn; how they should handle their internal issues by not letting things get this far and also by not involving unions in their internal issues. I am not only refering the organisation but also the workers, they should learner to speak for them self and they should not let the unions interfere in their internal organisational issues

I have to say that sometimes I find unions useless and I do not see the need for them and for people to pay for them. The mine workers at the Marikana were protesting for wages increase and 43 lives were lost during the protest. Why do they have to strike while they have a union that can represent them in a more professional way instead of run in the street and chanting? Where was the National Union of Mineworkers' (Num) at the time the miners needed the union the most read more.

I think that before we risk our live; we should consider asking ourselves why do we have unions and why do we have to pay for them. The reason why I want you to ask yourself this question is, because we pay for unions to represent us not for us to do their jobs. By the way what is their job because if we have a problem we have to go and protest on the streets, risking our live for us to voice out concerns instead of them handling the issue professionally?

From a communications point of view I would say that there was lack of communication from the organisation with its employees as well as the unions with its union members.

No strike for the teachers this year

Learners struggling to cope with the work load after the strike
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The question that I keep on asking myself is that; why do teachers have to strike at this crucial time of the year? This time of the year; is the time whereby learners need their teachers the most, due to the fact that they are about to write their trial and final examinations.

Apparently there was supposed to be a strike taking place on 15 August 2012, by the South African democratic teachers union (SADTU) in support of their secretary, who is facing dismissal following his conviction in a disciplinary hearing on charges of mismanagement and misappropriation of school funds at Kuzimisela Primary School in Daveyton."  Why do learners have to be affected by such senseless issues that have nothing to do with them? I have to say well done to the Gauteng department of education for putting a stop to that strike read more.

I think that our teacher should think about their learners and how striking is such a waste of time especially for issues such as this one, they should consider theirs learners first. That wasted time would have been spent in a classroom effectively by doing something constructive rather than running in the street and chanting.

I generally would like to suggest that, next time when teachers want to strike especially for such matters they should consider striking during school holidays or on public holidays so that their strike will not affect the learners.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         





Selebi released on medical parole



Jackie Selebi crying for a medical parole:
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Is it fair that Jackie Selebi is released on medical parole; while people die almost each and every day in prison waiting for their medical parole to be approved?

 I agree with the Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum and senior officials that the process followed in releasing Selebi was not transparent enough.

All along while he was busy with his criminal activities he was not sick now that he has to face the law he’s dying. Jackie Selebi was the former national commissioner of South African police service, who was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for corruption. He has only served 229 days of his 1^st year in prison for corruption read more.

Selebi, who is said he needs dialysis for kidney failure, was released from Pretoria central prison at the recommendation of an 11-member Medical Parole Advisory. What I want to know is that; is this other Schabir Shalk scenario? Does this mean that all corrupt government and ANC’s officials will get released on medical parole and not serve their sentences?

From a communication point of view, I think that the message that is being delivered to us by the South African justice system is that the poor deserve to die in prison and the wealthy will be released on medical parole. What is your say on this?