February 2010
Like many people in South Africa today, I want our government officials and spokespersons to stop lying to me and the rest of the South African population.
Take our education system for example: some officials in the Department of Education insist that outcomes-based education is doing wonders for our nation, yet the Director-General of the same department says it's failing the students.
Briefing Parliament's portfolio committee on basic education, he said that 38 percent of Grade Six pupils are currently functioning at the required level of literacy and only 35 percent at the required level in maths.
And nothing's wrong with our education system...
Read Paddy Hartdegen's comments in this issue.
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Regular FeaturesWATT'S SCIENCE WATT"S ENERGY Geysers - How to evaluate different strategies to save energy Contributer T C Venter, a retired electrical engineer and a former member of the SAIEE discusses the different methods of saving electricity consumed by a hot water geyser and comes up with some extremely interesting assessment tools that can be used to accurately evaluate electricity consumption. WATT SAYS Readers from around the country respond to some of the more recent articles published in WATTnow. The opinions are varied - some angry, some relieved and some amusing.
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