Education
Central government needs to plan, organise and coordinate, and provincial government needs to implement, expand and manage existing public education institutions to cover the whole range of child care, from facilities for infants and toddlers, pre-schoolers, primary schoolers, high-school goers, and university and technicon attendees.
   Private sector should be encouraged to invest and get involved in this comprehensive approach.
   Education should be free where possible. Fees should be pro-rated to parental earnings where necessary and be tax deductible.
   Government childcare subsidies should be available and accessible to all working couples with children needing such assistance.
   With adequate assistance in educating and rearing the children, parents can be freed up to seek and secure work and to build up their lives. Children will also benefit from secure and better influences than being left alone at home or to roam the streets getting up to mischief.
   More and better quality teachers must be trained for the newly expanded education coverage, and where necessary suitable skills outside the country must be sourced or re-sourced from those who previously left SA for overseas - helping to reverse the erstwhile braindrain.
   Existing teachers whose standards are not up to scratch must be retrained, and if not successful, should be retrenched.
   South Africa's high school education used to be on par with American universities. With the recent decline in standards it is frightening to think of what the comparison level might now be.
   We need to think before we do things in macro-education. We need to think before we give packages to many of the best teachers, leaving a lot of sub-standard so-called educators to struggle on trying to give our children what passes for an education. This is not proper governance; it is highly irresponsible politicking. You just do not do this sort of thing, no matter what your agenda might be.
   Disadvantaged adults who need basic educational skills, such as reading and writing, must be provided the opportunity to acquire these skills.
   An SABP-led government will sponsor and oversee provincially-run education funds to which all disadvantaged persons who wish to complete matric or study further may apply for financial assistance. Such assistance may take the form of low-interest loans, outright grants, or a combination of both, depending on the individual's circumstances.
   A good education, combined with an improved family life, with childcare and a nice house to look after and live in, and a job to look forward to every day, can actually make life worth living, and can go a long way to healing people's wounds of neglect and discouragement, as they are able day by day to improve their lives and generate their own wealth.
   A new curriculum of compulsory subjects will be introduced into schools, including practical subjects to prepare our children for the real world, in the fields of business, conservation, parenting, etc.