creating safe and caring schools
20 November 2006
The Department of Education, will on Tuesday, 21 November 2006, host the
colloquium on creating safe and caring schools, at the St Georges Hotel, near
Pretoria.
The Minister of Education, Mrs Naledi Pandor, (MP), will address the
colloquium at 09h00. Several speakers, including three Deputy Ministers,
Members of Parliaments (MPs) and Members of the Executive Committee (MECs),
have been invited to the colloquium. (See the programme below for the list of
participants).
The colloquium comes after a number of calls by some organisations, that
there was a need for a national indaba to discuss the incidents of violence in
schools countrywide; themed, "Creating Safe and Caring Schools", its aims are
to:
* identify specific interventions that will promote the development of safe
and caring schools throughout the country
* forge sustainable partnerships with relevant stakeholders, including relevant
government departments, teacher unions, school governing body associations,
learners and the youth, civil society and non-governmental organisations
(NGOs)
* formulate a conceptual framework for schools at various stages of achieving
the aim of being safe and caring.
The media is invited.
Programme
Colloquium on creating safe and caring schools, St Georges Hotel, Pretoria, 21
November 2006, 09h00
Chairpersons: Mr Mzwandile Matthews, Acting Deputy Director-General (DDG:
Quality Promotion and Development
Mrs Cynthia Mgijima, Chief Director: Health in Education
Mr Granville Whittle, Director: Race and Values
08h00 to 09h00: Arrival and registration
09h00 to 09h20: Opening and welcome: Mr Duncan Hindle, Director-General:
Education
09h20 to 09h45: Address by the Minister of Education, Mrs Naledi Pandor,
MP
09h45 to 11h00: Panel one: Intervention at school, district, provincial and
national levels: Ms Nariman Khan, Western Cape Department of Education (WCED);
Sister Mary Jane, Catholic Institute of Education (CIE), Mr Archie Benjamin,
Principal of Mountview Secondary School; Mr Shaheed Shaik, Principal of
Stonefountain College; Mrs Mabel Rantla, Office of the Rights of the Child; and
Mr E Maseko, School Governing Body Associations
11h00 to 11h20: Tea
11h20 to 12h35: Panel two: Role of stakeholders in "Creating Safe and Caring
Schools": Ms Nonduluko Nkondlo, National Youth Commission (NYC); Mr Thulas
Nxesi, General Secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union
(SADTU); Ms Mbali Mncadi, Department of Safety and Security; Advocate Thoko
Majokweni Independent Duty Medical Technician (IDMT); Ms Poppy Khala, Business
Against Crime; and Ms Nadi Albino, United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
13h00 to 14h00: Lunch
14h00 to 15h15: Panel three: Lessons/ implications for policy and practice from
research and international experience: Mr Brendan Barry, Author; Dr Mark
Potterton, Umalusi; Dr Anne-Marie Wolpe, Independent researcher; Mr Jody
Kollapen, Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC);
Professor Shepherd Mayatula, MP, Chairperson of the Education Portfolio
Committee; Ms Angie Motshekga, Gauteng MEC of Education
15h15 to 16h30: Panel four: Strategic directions vis-a-vis policy and practice
in "Creating Safe and Caring Schools": The Deputy Minister of Education, Mr
Enver Surty, MP; Ms Susan Shabangu, MP, Deputy Minister of Safety and Security;
Dr Jean Benjamin, (MP), Deputy Minister of Social Development; Deputy Minister
of Health, Ms Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, MP; Mr Gert Oosthuizen, (MP), Deputy
Minister of Sport and Recreation.
16h30 to 16h50: Tea
16h50 to 17h30: Way forward and closing remarks: Minister of Education, Mrs
Naledi Pandor, MP
Enquiries:
Mr Lunga Ngqengelele
Tel: (012) 312 5538
Cell: 082 566 0446
E-mail: ngqengelel.l@doe.gov.za
Mr Mzwandile Matthews
Tel: (012) 312 5097/ 5179
E-mail: matthews.m@doe.gov.za
Issued by: Department of Education
20 November 2006
