Proposed revision of history syllabus for schools: Expect a curriculum of hate
20 December 2018
The South African syllabus for history at school level is already Afrocentric and anti-Western. The FF Plus expects that the proposed revision of the syllabus to 'make it more Afrocentric and relevant to South African pupils' – as was recently announced – will result in a curriculum of hate.
If one has a closer look at the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS), then an anti-Western bias is already evident. For example, the French and Russian Revolutions are presented as Europe's only valuable contributions to the advancement of humanity.
And then South Africa's white people (irrespective of whether they are Afrikaans or English speaking) are portrayed as people who have contributed nothing but destruction to the history our country.
In the description of South Africa's Second Freedom War (incorrectly referred to as the South African War), the Afrikaners' ideal to achieve freedom is only mentioned as an aside. Instead, the current Marxist interpretation means that the wars are misrepresented as class-driven conflicts.