Makhosi Khoza has officially retired from politics!
In a letter addressed to the leadership of the African Democratic Change (ADeC) over the weekend, Dr Khoza said that she wants to pursue her passion in local governance.
She also said that she wants to pour her efforts in the “education and elevation of African languages as those of prestige and prosperity.”
Dr Khoza, in her announcement, maintained that when she assisted in the founding of ADeC, she was not intending on occupying a political position.
Dr Khoza said that a “promising potential opportunity” has availed itself for her to contribute positively to education and local governance.
“South Africa is in an atrocious state of education and the continued disgraceful, shameful, reprehensible and discreditable stunting of African languages.
“The black indigenous languages account for 79% of the South African population according to Statistics South Africa, 2011, yet they continue to be confined as those of tradition and culture as intended by the apartheid Bantu Education policy,” she said.
She also slammed the government for its stance on African languages in the education system.
“ It is my well-considered view that a nation that condemns and downgrades 79% of its population as secondary linguistic citizens in their ancestral land is guilty of perpetuating indignity, inequalities, racial inferiority complex and entrapment of its citizens in the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty,” she said.
She also said that her son, who is a computer programmer and computer science student, has developed an algorithm that will assist Dr Khoza’s goal.
