The Gauteng Association for Homeschooling appeared before Parliament this week on Tuesday, 29 November 2022. Our mission was simple, though not easy at all: to request the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education (the PCBE) to reconsider the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill provisions that pertain to home education. In June 2022, we submitted [...]
As I get to the front gate of my home, I see the two police officers arriving in their vehicle, asking if I am Mrs. Swart and if they may enter my gate. I knew in that moment, that my entire family was in trouble and my child’s future was at risk. I gracefully invited [...]
"Socialisation", and those questions we know all too well from concerned friends, family members, and everyone else as well, “surely your children need the social element of a school”, “how will they ever learn to work independently of you – cut the apron strings mommy”! The list is endless, but I’m not here to criticise [...]
When I was getting ready to embrace the ‘rat race ‘of the Western civilization again, after 3 years had elapsed since giving birth and my daughter was now ‘ready for school’, according to the contemporary way of thinking. I decided to go knock on some school doors in order to see where my daughter would [...]
As we continue part 10 of Nature vs Nurture, lets learn more about speech and language development from our interview with Speech Therapist and Audiologist Mignon Botes. Are the best years to learn a language between 2 to 4 years? “No, I think, the best years to learn a language is from birth and all the [...]
In life, there is only one type of knowledge that truly counts, and that is VERIFIED KNOWLEDGE. You can borrow knowledge from a doctor, speech therapist, a book, a professor, or wherever you think has the greatest knowledge, but one thing is for certain, nothing and no one beats VERIFIED KNOWLEDGE. This refers to knowledge [...]
Attention: Mr L A Brown Dear Mrs B P Mbinqo-Gigaba, Chairperson: Portfolio Committee on Basic Education RE: BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMMENDMENT BILL – Concerns about home education sections. The Gauteng Association for Homeschooling welcomes the opportunity to comment on the BELA Bill which is now before the Portfolio Committee of Basic Education. A. Introduction [...]
As the chairperson for the Gauteng Association for homeschooling, I had the delightful honor of being invited to South Africa’s first “working group” meeting, with the Department of Education here in Gauteng on Wednesday, 18 May 2022. The meeting was scheduled to run for 4 hours, starting at 10am, with the intention of informing the government [...]
Kevin Swart, Boys U/13, Earned the following amazing achievements: 100m Sprints - 1st place, Long Jump - 1st place, Shot Put - 2nd place. Well done to you Kevin! As the Afrikaan saying goes: "Dit wil gedoen word!!"
Elizabeth Clarabelle Nel, only 3 (running under 4), earned 1st place in 60m Sprints and 2nd place in 40m Hurdles. Elizabeth, you are a true achiever. Well done to you for such amazing performances!
