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lezz:
what's your secret?
What's your secret for being so devoid of pride,shame and diginy?

Common sense says a country where over 80% of its population only came into contact with civilization and decency in 1994 will still be won't to savagery and barbarism.


Patchesagain, tells me Zulu and Xhosa boys and girls have 93% literacy level. You must have escaped from the queue at the synagogue.

Tell me, how is the educational integration going ? You gave a link but I want you to read on this excerpt :
SA’s shocking literacy stats

October 22 2013 at 07:52am
By Leanne Jansen Comment on this story

AP
File photo: Experts have blamed poor litercay levels on pupils being taught to parrot rather than read independently.
Durban - The literacy level of South African Grade 5 pupils is a “national catastrophe”.

The consequence of pupils being taught to “parrot” rather than read independently was that, after five years of school, 13 percent of Grade 5s (11-year-olds) were illiterate and most were able to score no more than four out of 20 on a comprehension exercise, new data from the national education evaluation and development unit, has revealed.

Speaking in Durban on Monday, Nick Taylor, the head of the unit which reports directly to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, said that, from the classroom research conducted in urban and rural areas, it had become “quite clear that most of our teachers can’t teach reading”.

This was despite several years and billions of rand worth of teacher training later.

Earlier this year, Taylor’s unit released the first national evaluation of how pupils in grades 1, 2 and 3 (the foundation phase) in urban schools were taught, marking a shift off the emphasis on Grade 12.

The upshot of the report was that pupils were not taught to solve numeracy problems or read independently because most teachers did not know how to teach these skills.

This year the unit has extended its work to later grades, focusing on reading in rural schools. Its final report will be handed to Motshekga early next year.

“As far as I’m concerned this is a national catastrophe,” Taylor told a meeting of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), at which he was the guest speaker, and which was attended by principals, school governing body members and politicians.

Taylor said it was “deeply disturbing” that in the classrooms visited by the unit this year, just 5 percent of Grade 5 pupils could read at the required rate of 80 to 90 words a minute.

In the urban Grade 2 classrooms the unit studied last year, it found that while the average eight-year-old was meant to be reading 58 words a minute by the end of the second term, and 71 words a minute by the end of the fourth term, this was not the case.

Instead, when the reading fluency of the top three pupils in each class was observed, researchers found that most were reading between 20 and 29 words a minute.

Teachers could no longer afford to shut their heads of departments (HODs) out of their classrooms, because if the situation was to be remedied, reading had to be declared a “national priority” and professional development needed to take place at school.

Taylor said that teachers were putting far too little emphasis on the ultimate goal, which was independent reading – children were simply “singing in unison”.

Despite teachers’ poor subject knowledge, the large majority of them were considered qualified.

In 1990, 53 percent of teachers held a teaching qualification. By last year, that figure stood at 96 percent. But there was a gap between qualifications and competence.

“While it was true that resourcing, policy and school leadership are all very important, once children are in classrooms, learning depends heavily on the teacher.”

Taylor said that the growth in the number of teachers who held teaching qualifications had been fuelled by the Advanced Certificate in Education courses, which were offered part-time by universities. But the courses had failed to address poor subject knowledge.

Turning to his recommendations, Taylor said that teachers’ unions would be key to turning the situation around.

They needed to help dispel the belief that for teachers to be monitored by their school management team was “about judging”.

The notion that school managers should not visit classrooms was both “rife” and “disastrous”.

“When teachers go into their classrooms, they close the door and that is their kingdom.”

Taylor said that as far as teacher training was concerned, afternoon workshops were “a waste of time”, and that district-based subject advisers were overwhelmed, being responsible for up to 300 schools.

“I want to promote the idea of in-school professional development. The HOD is the person on site who knows her teachers, who can help her teachers on a daily basis,” Taylor said.

Basil Manuel, the president of Naptosa, told the meeting it was “unacceptable” that HODs were not visiting classrooms and not evaluating teachers for fear of upsetting certain teachers.

It was the core responsibility of an HOD to manage the curriculum and monitor its delivery, Manuel said.

The Mercury

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SA was long civilised when Nigeria was still a bush. The year 1994 denote only new transition and political dispensation, it has nothing to do with civilisation dummy.

The Nigerian Airforce may have just taken delivery of new fighter jets,along with a significant number of attack helicopters from russia and pakistan through italy.
[Pictures on the way]

lezz:
I can smell your desperation and anxiety across this platform.
This sewer rat is hurting so bad. die-vluit is losing it. Your opinion doesn't count. You come at me with so much haste and fury. I won't want to slay you in this state.
I shall humble you when you are sober and at your best.
For now, fade away, scum.

Desperation is when all your posts are full of the following:

1. Emotion
2. Racism
3. Anger
4. Unsubstantiated statements.

And lack the following:

1. Relevance to the thread; and
2. Evidence and support for the statements made.

That's "desperate" and thats you.

Now, where does this long tirade of yours deny the following:

1. Nigeria has a pathetic military
2. Nigeria's weapons aren't wanted
3. Chad is saving nigeria
4. Nigeria tried to by SA weapons.
5. Nigeria's money was seized trying to but SA weapons.

Whenever you're ready.

lezz:
what's your secret?
What's your secret for being so devoid of pride,shame and diginy?

Common sense says a country where over 80% of its population only came into contact with civilization and decency in 1994 will still be won't to savagery and barbarism.


Patchesagain, tells me Zulu and Xhosa boys and girls have 93% literacy level. You must have escaped from the queue at the synagogue.

Tell me, how is the educational integration going ? You gave a link but I want you to read on this excerpt :
SA’s shocking literacy stats

October 22 2013 at 07:52am
By Leanne Jansen Comment on this story

AP
File photo: Experts have blamed poor litercay levels on pupils being taught to parrot rather than read independently.
Durban - The literacy level of South African Grade 5 pupils is a “national catastrophe”.

The consequence of pupils being taught to “parrot” rather than read independently was that, after five years of school, 13 percent of Grade 5s (11-year-olds) were illiterate and most were able to score no more than four out of 20 on a comprehension exercise, new data from the national education evaluation and development unit, has revealed.

Speaking in Durban on Monday, Nick Taylor, the head of the unit which reports directly to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, said that, from the classroom research conducted in urban and rural areas, it had become “quite clear that most of our teachers can’t teach reading”.

This was despite several years and billions of rand worth of teacher training later.

Earlier this year, Taylor’s unit released the first national evaluation of how pupils in grades 1, 2 and 3 (the foundation phase) in urban schools were taught, marking a shift off the emphasis on Grade 12.

The upshot of the report was that pupils were not taught to solve numeracy problems or read independently because most teachers did not know how to teach these skills.

This year the unit has extended its work to later grades, focusing on reading in rural schools. Its final report will be handed to Motshekga early next year.

“As far as I’m concerned this is a national catastrophe,” Taylor told a meeting of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), at which he was the guest speaker, and which was attended by principals, school governing body members and politicians.

Taylor said it was “deeply disturbing” that in the classrooms visited by the unit this year, just 5 percent of Grade 5 pupils could read at the required rate of 80 to 90 words a minute.

In the urban Grade 2 classrooms the unit studied last year, it found that while the average eight-year-old was meant to be reading 58 words a minute by the end of the second term, and 71 words a minute by the end of the fourth term, this was not the case.

Instead, when the reading fluency of the top three pupils in each class was observed, researchers found that most were reading between 20 and 29 words a minute.

Teachers could no longer afford to shut their heads of departments (HODs) out of their classrooms, because if the situation was to be remedied, reading had to be declared a “national priority” and professional development needed to take place at school.

Taylor said that teachers were putting far too little emphasis on the ultimate goal, which was independent reading – children were simply “singing in unison”.

Despite teachers’ poor subject knowledge, the large majority of them were considered qualified.

In 1990, 53 percent of teachers held a teaching qualification. By last year, that figure stood at 96 percent. But there was a gap between qualifications and competence.

“While it was true that resourcing, policy and school leadership are all very important, once children are in classrooms, learning depends heavily on the teacher.”

Taylor said that the growth in the number of teachers who held teaching qualifications had been fuelled by the Advanced Certificate in Education courses, which were offered part-time by universities. But the courses had failed to address poor subject knowledge.

Turning to his recommendations, Taylor said that teachers’ unions would be key to turning the situation around.

They needed to help dispel the belief that for teachers to be monitored by their school management team was “about judging”.

The notion that school managers should not visit classrooms was both “rife” and “disastrous”.

“When teachers go into their classrooms, they close the door and that is their kingdom.”

Taylor said that as far as teacher training was concerned, afternoon workshops were “a waste of time”, and that district-based subject advisers were overwhelmed, being responsible for up to 300 schools.

“I want to promote the idea of in-school professional development. The HOD is the person on site who knows her teachers, who can help her teachers on a daily basis,” Taylor said.

Basil Manuel, the president of Naptosa, told the meeting it was “unacceptable” that HODs were not visiting classrooms and not evaluating teachers for fear of upsetting certain teachers.

It was the core responsibility of an HOD to manage the curriculum and monitor its delivery, Manuel said.

The Mercury

Related Stories

Language important to pupils: Motshekga
Education is improving: Surty
Western Cape kids say ‘school is useless’
‘Extra teachers won’t reduce class sizes’
A private education can be low cost
SA pupils sit for ANA tests
Matric pass rate under review
Passing ‘not about numbers’





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A Loooong piece of irrelevance and ignorance that can be dealt with via one word:

"Mapungubwe"

Again, research before opening your mouth"

Again, where does the above deal with the primary issue that Nigeria has an embarrasment for a military?

Garta and other neighbouring villages have been liberated by nigerian troops,boko haram fighters who tried escaping into azur forest were heavily pounded with 105mm gun.
in another report,nigerian special forces are closing in on gwoza.

EVarn:
Garta and other neighbouring villages have been liberated by nigerian troops,boko haram fighters who tried escaping into azur forest were heavily pounded with 105mm gun.
in another report,nigerian special forces are closing in on gwoza.

Oh, so Garta and neighbouring villages had been under boko haram in the first place?

Be ashamed.

heavy battle have reportedly ensued in gwoza and parts of bama.
a "very large" number of foreign fighters including arab,tuareg and french fighters have reportedly engaged the nigerian military using highly sophisticated weapons and strategy.

DieVluit:
Oh, so Garta and neighbouring villages had been under boko haram in the first place?
Be ashamed.

no,you should be ashamed for using the sacred sacrifice of gallant men of the nigerian army as an 'arguementative offensive'.

As nigerian troops enter gwoza,the Nigerian Intelligence Agency and Department of State Security have reportedly deployed field operatives in the quest to hunt and capture abubakar shekau,grand sheik of the violent jihadist movement,boko haram.

US places economic sanctions on hezbollah movement in nigeria.As Nigerian Intelligence Agency probes possible alliance between hezbollah and boko haram.

The Nigerian Airforce may have recently taken delivery of cobra helicopters along with mine sweeping T55 armoured battle vehicle.
the source of the new Cobra helicopters remain unknown,as there havent been any known recent weapon transaction between Nigeria and the US.

EVarn:
As nigerian troops enter gwoza,the Nigerian Intelligence Agency and Department of State Security have reportedly deployed field operatives in the quest to hunt and capture abubakar shekau,grand sheik of the violent jihadist movement,boko haram.

Oh so they didn't kill him, like ten times already?

Amazing what's revealed in an attempt to "celebrate"

EVarn:
no,you should be ashamed for using the sacred sacrifice of gallant men of the nigerian army as an 'arguementative offensive'.

In other words, boko haram has captured territory in nigeria as confirmed by you after months of denying the obvious. And you can't deny it.

Amazing what "celebrations" reveal.

EVarn:
The Nigerian Airforce may have just taken delivery of new fighter jets,along with a significant number of attack helicopters from russia and pakistan through italy.
[Pictures on the way]

Wow can't wait that would be great !

DieVluit:
Oh so they didn't kill him, like ten times already?

Amazing what's revealed in an attempt to "celebrate"

In one of the seseons of a show strike back the good guys are hunting for this terrorist. In the end it revealed he had been dead for years and the organisation had prented he was alive so the good guys would spened resources hunting down a dead man. Aka. Kill shekau will not stop BH, liberating towns and villages will not stop BH and killing every member of BH will not stop BH. Because the underlying reasons BH sprang up have not been looked at.

DieVluit:
A Loooong piece of irrelevance and ignorance that can be dealt with via one word:

"Mapungubwe"

Again, research before opening your mouth"

Again, where does the above deal with the primary issue that Nigeria has an embarrasment for a military?

Zulu boy is still hurting.
I won't give you the mercy death you are secretly begging for.

You should live with your sins.

DieVluit:
Oh so they didn't kill him, like ten times already?
Amazing what's revealed in an attempt to "celebrate"

they killed his double,with picture evidence to support it.

andrewza:
In one of the seseons of a show strike back the good guys are hunting for this terrorist. In the end it revealed he had been dead for years and the organisation had prented he was alive so the good guys would spened resources hunting down a dead man. Aka. Kill shekau will not stop BH, liberating towns and villages will not stop BH and killing every member of BH will not stop BH. Because the underlying reasons BH sprang up have not been looked at.

I concur.

Capturing lost towns won't be the end of BH, they might restart a deadly urban terror campaign similar to shebaab.

BH captured towns cause they had space to breath.

EVarn:
they killed his double,with picture evidence to support it.

In other words, Shekau has always been alive and kicking.

Please be ashamed.

MikeCZAR:
I concur.

Capturing lost towns won't be the end of BH, they might restart a deadly urban terror campaign similar to shebaab.

BH captured towns cause they had space to breath.

Their capturing territory was never their style or objective anyway. They only did it to copy ISIS and because the Nigerian military was sleeping at the wheel.

DieVluit:
In other words, boko haram has captured territory in nigeria as confirmed by you after months of denying the obvious. And you can't deny it.
Amazing what "celebrations" reveal.

i can,but i wont waste my time on a cockroach like you..cockroach

DieVluit:
Their capturing territory was never their style or objective anyway. They only did it to copy ISIS and because the Nigerian military was sleeping at the wheel.

The Nigerian army is ineffective mate.

DieVluit:
In other words, Shekau has always been alive and kicking
Please be ashamed.

you should be

bidexiii:
Wow can't wait that would be great !

yes,but its an unconfirmed report.
confirmation is still in progress.

lezz:
Zulu boy is still hurting.
I won't give you the mercy death you are secretly begging for.

You should live with your sins.

Anyone can post "Zulu boy is hurting". But not everyone. No, no one can deny the following:

1. Nigeria has a pathetic military
2. Nigeria's weapons aren't wanted
3. Chad is saving nigeria
4. Nigeria tried to by SA weapons.
5. Nigeria's money was seized trying to but SA weapons.

Facts are facts. You have no choice but to post emoticons, alternatively anger, alternatively racism. That's your only choice.

EVarn:
you should be

Simply put, you have been told something you cannot deny and this is your throwaway post in response.

EVarn:
i can,but i wont waste my time on a cockroach like you..cockroach

For as long as the thread exists, readers will not see you against a cockroach. They will see your emotions against facts that you failed to challenge. You cannot, my man. You have no response and will never have one.

DieVluit:
Anyone can post "Zulu boy is hurting". But not everyone. No, no one can deny the following:

1. Nigeria has a pathetic military
2. Nigeria's weapons aren't wanted
3. Chad is saving nigeria
4. Nigeria tried to by SA weapons.
5. Nigeria's money was seized trying to but SA weapons.

Facts are facts. You have no choice but to post emoticons, alternatively anger, alternatively racism. That's your only choice.

Good, I think you're almost sober.
But still hurting from my last whooping.
You're almost there but not yet.

lezz:
Good, I think you're almost sober.
But still hurting from my last whooping.
You're almost there but not yet.

Meaning, you have given up all attempts to have your moemish tag reversed. You have accepted the id1ocy of your posts as from yesterday at least; and that the Nigerian military is inferior and you cannot argue otherwise. And that emotions and racism will not change this.

Well done.

>

Patchesagain:
Show us 12 F-7s in the sky

NAF does not do Hollywood photo mania like SAAF that has inferiority complex due to lack of combat experience, you want to boost your ego with photos while Nigeria boosts ego with combat experience.

The was NEVER any report ANYWHERE that NAF has shortage of pilots for F-7 jets....or else show us one such source/report !

Rather is is SAAF that has been reported by many sources all over the world as having shortage of pilots, 9 Gripen pilots previously qualified, the rest are dummies that cannot do combat, while recent reports now say the 9 previously qualified Gripen jet pilots NO LONGER get qualifying flight hours, means NO SINGLE QUALIFIED GRIPEN JET PILOT in South African air force today 2015 !

SAAF is d.ead
.

Patchesagain:
You cannot afford what we sell.

All you can afford from us is 17 year old second hand trucks

TDLR; we sell T-72's and Hinds (pic related)

South Africa does not sell T-72 and Mi-35, you upgrade for those who have.

Manufacturer legal control does not allow 3rd party weapons transfer without permit.

SIPRI arms transfer log and UN arms sales register record ZERO sales or transfer of any Russian weapon by South Africa.

Your claim is fraudulent as usual
.