Speaking at a poverty eradication workshop in Diphuduhudu last week, the Assistant Minister of Education, Keletso Rakhudu, said consideration of such a scheme would be informed by the fact that education is the only way out of poverty.Helping children from poor families out of poverty by favouring them to tertiary schools was thus a moral imperative.
Elaborating in an interview subsequently, Rakhudu said promotion to tertiary level for RADS would be all embracing in order to include even children who had failed. Such children may repeat, if necessary, and then be encouraged to pursue vocational training. "We believe that technicians for projects in a village like Diphuduhudu should be produced from here," Rakhudu said. "They can be trained to do jobs here. In that way, we would be able to cut the chain of poverty in their families and develop the community here as well."But by all means, RADS would be encouraged not to settle for diploma courses, he added; they should pursue degree programmes in order that they may also join the private sector.
