Sent to The Star, Johannesburg, Tue
13/10/2015 08:04. Published Wednesday 14 October 2015 as “History must be balanced”
Thabo
Thwala (Star Letters, Tuesday 13 October) says that the “DA wants to forget its
part in history”, because DA basic education spokesman Gavin Davis is against
history being made compulsory in school.
Thwala
claims that the DA is a result, partly (he has the grace to admit), of the
remnants of pro-apartheid stalwarts and organisations.
Perhaps
due to not having been taught history in school, he does not seem to have
noticed that this is true of other parties too, ex-National Party member
Marthinus van Schalkwyk (for example) is a prominent member of the ANC.
Other former Apartheid supporters have found the authoritarian tendencies of
the ANC more to their taste.
These
dictatorial attitudes find expression in ideas like making school subjects
compulsory even for those who have no aptitude for them.
The
DA is not against the teaching of a balanced and fair history. It would be
against the spreading of ANC propaganda under the guise of history, as the ANC
desperately tries to shore up its dwindling support.
The
DA, as a liberal party, is against compulsion, over-regulation, and top-down
control.
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