The fourth annual Tsietsi Mashinini Memorial lecture was held at Morris Isaacson High School in Central Western Jabavu- Soweto.
Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala Vice Chancellor of University of Johannesburg focused on the fourth Industrial Revolution. Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng Vice Chancellor of University of Cape Town: the impact of language choice as a medium of instruction in Education.
Maishe Maponya graced the annual lecture and shared two of his poem with the attendees.
Given an opportunity to address those in attendance. Prof. Marwala urged youth to partake in the fourth Industrial Revolution. “In the spirit of Tsietsi Mashinini now it’s the time to master the art of scientific organising our society to increase economic production as well as social cohesion to unity our people.”
Marwala concluded, “In the spirit of Tsietsi Mashinini now it’s the time to transform the landscape of our industrial base to tickle the problems of poverty, unemployment, and inequality.”
Prof. Phakeng highlighted the importance of African languages in Education. “Our African language have no value, you cannot exchange them and you know them but they mean nothing.”
“We have social workers or doctors or people who will work in the public to serve majority of people who are multilingual or black and some of them are not fluent in English but we train professionals who cannot speak one African language.”
“We at UCT have a requirement for our students who are studying to become Medical Doctors to pass isiXhosa and you don’t graduate at UCT if you didn’t pass isiXhosa. We do it with doctors because we feel that they are going to serve our people and they need to be able to speak the African language,” she added.
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