BOFEPUSU takes on Arone

In a morning Duma Fm programme Arone said he personally supports the move in which teachers will be converted to a professional autonomous like it is happening in Kenya. He later reiterated his opinion in an interview with Mmegi that an autonomous body understands how the teachers work. “These are my personal views. Kenya is the only country I know that we can associate ourselves with on education issues,” said the Okavango Member of Parliament who is also a former secondary school teacher.

Arone said as long as the teachers are regulated by the PSA, the education system would never resolve its problematic issues. He said in Kenya there are more than 300,000 teachers and they do not experience the problems that are perennial in the education sector here. In response the BOFEPUSU deputy secretary general Ketlhalefile Motshegwa said that Arone’s idea was problematic.