Minister creates uncertainty regarding sexuality education
22 November 2019
The answers provided by the Minister of Basic Education, Ms Angie Motshekga, to parliamentary questions about the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (generally known as CSE) are either calculated and vague or she is not quite sure what is going on in her Department.
On Tuesday, she said in a written answer to a question posed by the FF Plus that there is no new curriculum and that CSE has been taught in South African schools since 2001.
Thus, she is ignoring the fact that the so-called Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (generally known as CAPS) only provide broad guidelines and that the actual content is determined by textbooks, lesson plans and class presentations.
So, introducing new lesson plans comes down to implementing a new curriculum even through CAPS remain unchanged.