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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake up with a bang.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Hey, wake up! Anele and the Club on 947.
- 0:06Speaker 3: You know that saying that as an adult, you need
- 0:08Speaker 3: to enjoy every single thing that happens in your life.
- 0:11Speaker 3: If you're having a cup of coffee, stop, sip it,
- 0:15Speaker 3: savor it. Because at any moment, something is going to
- 0:20Speaker 3: come and it's just going to disturb your peace. We
- 0:22Speaker 3: are currently operating at 10 crash outs a minute here.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Okay, it's 2026 and anything can happen.
- 0:29Speaker 3: So I can imagine when Tembisa sent us this voice note,
- 0:32Speaker 3: she was just like, you know, of all of the
- 0:34Speaker 3: things in my life that I'm trying to get hold of,
- 0:37Speaker 3: out of all of the ducks that I'm trying to
- 0:38Speaker 3: keep in a row, out of all of the marbles
- 0:40Speaker 3: that I'm trying to keep in the same jar, out
- 0:42Speaker 3: of all of the cookies that I'm trying to not
- 0:44Speaker 3: get to crumble, this.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Is not what I need in my life right now.
- 0:49Speaker 4: Finally, now I am so upset.
- 0:51Speaker 5: Like, I'm actually angry. Yazi, my great one, at teacher.
- 0:56Speaker 5: They gave us a listing of all the material they needed.
- 0:59Speaker 5: We bought everything. Now guess what? October, teacher resigns. New
- 1:05Speaker 5: art teacher is in town. And now the new art
- 1:08Speaker 5: teacher has given a new list for us to buy.
- 1:11Speaker 3: I will.
- 1:13Speaker 4: How do they begin? Where are we going to get
- 1:15Speaker 4: the money to buy the new stuff in October?
- 1:17Speaker 6: I will.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Yeah, this valid crash out, absolutely valid crash out.
- 1:24Speaker 1: It is October.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Who must be buying stationary in October? Even if you
- 1:29Speaker 3: say to me, no, it goes over to next year.
- 1:31Speaker 1: No, it's October.
- 1:33Speaker 3: October doesn't have stationary money. January has got stationary money,
- 1:38Speaker 3: not October.
- 1:39Speaker 7: But also, if there's a set like program, curriculum, let's say,
- 1:46Speaker 7: surely that's not dependent on which teacher exists.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Is actually in the classroom. If we need crayons, we
- 1:53Speaker 1: need crayons.
- 1:54Speaker 7: It can't change because there's a new teacher because I'm
- 1:56Speaker 7: not playing that.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Well, there's a new sheriff in town and the sheriff
- 2:00Speaker 3: wants you to have water paints and not oil paints.
- 2:03Speaker 2: No, I agree with this parent.
- 2:05Speaker 1: I just wouldn't.
- 2:06Speaker 2: It's literally what? Six weeks left of school. No, she
- 2:09Speaker 2: can borrow from, my child can borrow from the teacher.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
- 2:12Speaker 2: And I will go tell the teacher. I'll say, you know, really,
- 2:14Speaker 2: I don't see what's wrong with the old set. And
- 2:17Speaker 2: can't we all take all the current sets that are
- 2:20Speaker 2: there and take one? Because not everybody's used the same
- 2:22Speaker 2: amount of stuff, right? So you might have.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Used more clay.
- 2:25Speaker 4: I might have used more glue.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Let's just, I will help you. I will come after
- 2:29Speaker 2: school and I will sort it out for you. And
- 2:31Speaker 2: we can distribute it evenly to carry us for six
- 2:34Speaker 2: weeks because you cannot tell me. that they need to
- 2:37Speaker 2: make some amazing pasta necklace now that needs all of that.
- 2:40Speaker 3: But maybe let me get on the teacher's side here.
- 2:43Speaker 3: Maybe there's a specific end-year project that has to be
- 2:46Speaker 3: done and then it requires.
- 2:48Speaker 2: It doesn't require a whole new set. It honestly, at max,
- 2:51Speaker 2: requires some new white paint because they go through white
- 2:54Speaker 2: paint like there's no tomorrow.
- 2:55Speaker 1: A little bit of glue and something else.
- 2:57Speaker 4: It doesn't require a whole pack.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
- 3:00Speaker 4: You're getting an email from me.
- 3:01Speaker 7: You don't know this could be like Miss Van Gogh
- 3:04Speaker 7: she could be really coming through with the art pieces
- 3:06Speaker 7: for the great ones.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Maybe this is what's going to unlock your child's talent.
- 3:12Speaker 2: You know what also unlocks your child's talent is the
- 3:15Speaker 2: resilience to work with what they currently have to create
- 3:19Speaker 2: a masterpiece Because that's going to force them to literally,
- 3:21Speaker 2: pardon the pun, think outside of the box and use
- 3:25Speaker 2: what they currently can to master something together. Because now
- 3:29Speaker 2: they have to.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Go through adversity.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I only had a black pencil and I didn't have
- 3:34Speaker 2: red and I came up with this.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Amazing.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Can't wait. Cindy's not paying that, teacher.
- 3:38Speaker 7: I was going to say, if you ever need someone
- 3:42Speaker 7: to speak to your child's teacher about something you're not
- 3:44Speaker 7: going to do, Cindy's your girl.
- 3:45Speaker 3: Can I tell you, as Cindy's speaking, I realize how
- 3:47Speaker 3: many parents are actually so scared to bring up things
- 3:50Speaker 3: like this to teachers. And firstly, because not all of
- 3:54Speaker 3: us are confrontational. Not all of us are built like that.
- 3:57Speaker 3: And then secondly, to some parents, they feel that if
- 4:00Speaker 3: you ever come up against your teacher or you raise something...
- 4:03Speaker 3: then your teacher is going to victimize your child for
- 4:06Speaker 3: the rest of the year. So you're kind of avoiding
- 4:08Speaker 3: putting your child in the firing line. So there's two
- 4:11Speaker 3: types of parents. It's one or the other. And maybe
- 4:14Speaker 3: on 011-8838-947, I want to.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Know which parent are you?
- 4:18Speaker 7: But also, I mean, think of it this way, right?
- 4:20Speaker 7: You think the request is ridiculous, but we know how
- 4:23Speaker 7: kids are like, you don't want your child to feel
- 4:25Speaker 7: left out when everyone opens their school bag on Monday
- 4:28Speaker 7: and they've got all the new stuff that we're apparently
- 4:30Speaker 7: going to be using.
- 4:31Speaker 4: So, you know, it's ridiculous.
- 4:33Speaker 7: But I can see why some parent would then say, okay,
- 4:36Speaker 7: I don't like the idea, but I also don't want
- 4:38Speaker 7: my child to sit there and be the only one
- 4:40Speaker 7: who doesn't have a new set.
- 4:41Speaker 2: That's why you message about four or five other parents
- 4:44Speaker 2: in the class to get a general feel for the water.
- 4:47Speaker 2: You probably find you're right, but you message them individually.
- 4:50Speaker 2: And then you go to the teacher and you say,
- 4:53Speaker 2: us parents, feel.
- 4:55Speaker 1: She's a lobbyist.
- 4:56Speaker 3: She's in the wrong job.
- 4:58Speaker 1: She should really be in cabinet.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Oh.
- 5:00Speaker 1: On Capitol Hill somewhere.
- 5:02Speaker 2: No, I actually want to make a change.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Oh, loving for it all.
- 5:08Speaker 6: 011-8838-947.
- 5:08Speaker 3: Is Tempisa valid for this crash out?
- 5:11Speaker 4: Finally. Oh, I am so upset.
- 5:13Speaker 5: Like, I'm actually angry. Yazzie, my grade one art teacher.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Grade one?
- 5:18Speaker 5: They give us the listening of all the material they needed.
- 5:21Speaker 5: We bought everything. Now guess what?
- 5:23Speaker 4: October. October.
- 5:25Speaker 5: Teacher resigns. New art teacher is in town. And now
- 5:29Speaker 5: the new art teacher.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Has given a new list for us to buy.
- 5:33Speaker 2: I will.
- 5:35Speaker 4: How do they begin? Where are we going to get
- 5:37Speaker 4: the money to buy the new stuff in October?
- 5:39Speaker 2: I will.
- 5:40Speaker 1: On 011-8838-947, send us a voice note 084-0000947.
- 5:42Speaker 3: You are now Tembisa. What is your next move? What
- 5:44Speaker 3: are you going to do?
- 5:55Speaker 4: Finally. Why am I so upset? Like, I'm actually angry.
- 5:59Speaker 5: Yazzie, my great one, art teacher, they gave us a
- 6:03Speaker 5: list of all the material they needed. We bought everything.
- 6:07Speaker 5: Now guess what? October, teacher resigns. New art teacher is
- 6:12Speaker 5: in town. And now the new art teacher.
- 6:15Speaker 4: Has given a new list for us to buy.
- 6:18Speaker 2: I will.
- 6:19Speaker 4: How do they begin? Where are we going to get
- 6:21Speaker 4: the money to buy the new stuff in October? I
- 6:24Speaker 4: will It's grade one.
- 6:27Speaker 1: It's October. What else are they still doing?
- 6:30Speaker 4: Like, policeman.
- 6:32Speaker 6: I never, can never be me.
- 6:34Speaker 1: Let them draw with what they've got. There's no such.
- 6:39Speaker 1: One of my thousand reasons why I don't have children.
- 6:42Speaker 4: My question is, why did the teacher resign?
- 6:44Speaker 7: Maybe she was running a small Indiana stationary shop on
- 6:48Speaker 7: the side.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Sandy for president.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Cindy, you have to go.
- 6:54Speaker 4: I have a draft of emails. Just tell me what
- 6:57Speaker 4: you need to sort it out.
- 6:58Speaker 1: At your school. What are you doing on the 4th
- 7:03Speaker 1: of November? Exactly. 011-8838-947 10% issue is this.
- 7:05Speaker 3: There was an art teacher at her child's school. We
- 7:08Speaker 3: don't know if it's a girl or boy. She didn't
- 7:10Speaker 3: specify on that. Either way, this child is in grade one.
- 7:13Speaker 3: In September, the art teacher left, resigned. In October, a
- 7:16Speaker 3: new one comes. And in October, a new one wants
- 7:19Speaker 3: to give us new stationary things to buy for art.
- 7:22Speaker 7: Also, she's starting work very late for someone with all
- 7:24Speaker 7: this ambition. You should have started in January with all
- 7:27Speaker 7: these high hopes.
- 7:28Speaker 1: You should have caught us then.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Yes.
- 7:29Speaker 1: When we were all fresh. Now, we are all winding down, bruh.
- 7:33Speaker 1: It is the Thursday of the year. It's Thursday afternoon.
- 7:38Speaker 7: It's done.
- 7:38Speaker 1: It's done.
- 7:39Speaker 6: Why?
- 7:39Speaker 3: Why are you here?
- 7:41Speaker 1: Jennifer, you're in Randberg. Good morning, ma'am.
- 7:44Speaker 6: Good morning, how are you?
- 7:45Speaker 1: We're so good, Jane. Jane, how are you?
- 7:46Speaker 3: I'm very well, thank you.
- 7:49Speaker 1: What are you thinking on this?
- 7:52Speaker 6: Sir, I'm agreeing with Cindy. Six weeks left, sorry. There's
- 7:57Speaker 6: no way I'm buying stationery.
- 8:00Speaker 1: And also, at six.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Weeks left and you're in grade one, isn't that when
- 8:03Speaker 3: they hold a TV into the class and you guys
- 8:06Speaker 3: watch The Little Mermaid and Lion King until the year ends?
- 8:09Speaker 6: Exactly. They're not working anymore.
- 8:11Speaker 1: They're not working.
- 8:12Speaker 3: The marks are the marks. No one is going to paint,
- 8:14Speaker 3: you know, the 12th chapel here.
- 8:16Speaker 2: Especially in grade one.
- 8:18Speaker 6: Especially in grade one.
- 8:21Speaker 3: Would it make sense, Jennifer, if she was saying, no,
- 8:24Speaker 3: this is the stuff that we're going to need for
- 8:26Speaker 3: next year, you can just start bringing it now?
- 8:28Speaker 2: No.
- 8:29Speaker 6: Yes, that will make more sense.
- 8:31Speaker 3: In your life.
- 8:32Speaker 6: Definitely.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Okay. Guys, no one is.
- 8:35Speaker 6: Make a big difference.
- 8:36Speaker 7: Wait, so if that makes sense, that means your beef
- 8:38Speaker 7: is not with buying stationery.
- 8:40Speaker 1: It's just the time of the year then.
- 8:41Speaker 7: Yes.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Because then you would say, even if it's now, I
- 8:43Speaker 1: don't want to buy at all. Even if it's for
- 8:45Speaker 1: next year because it's October. Why am I buying stationery still? Yes,
- 8:48Speaker 1: because this money is for Mshlanga.
- 8:51Speaker 6: This is holiday money.
- 8:53Speaker 3: The money I have right now is for Benito.
- 8:56Speaker 4: Okay?
- 8:57Speaker 3: It's for the Kruger.
- 8:58Speaker 1: It's for Warambat. You, your money, you're getting it in Jan.
- 9:03Speaker 4: Finally. Oh, I am so upset. Like, I'm actually angry.
- 9:07Speaker 5: Yazi, my great one, art teacher, they gave us a
- 9:10Speaker 5: listing of all the material they needed.
- 9:13Speaker 4: We bought everything. Now guess what?
- 9:16Speaker 5: October, teacher resigns. New art teacher is in town. And
- 9:21Speaker 5: now the new art teacher has given a new list
- 9:24Speaker 5: for us to buy. How do they begin? Where are
- 9:28Speaker 5: we going to get the money to buy the new
- 9:29Speaker 5: stuff in October?
- 9:32Speaker 4: All right. Quick one.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Where is the principal in this scenario? Like, where is
- 9:36Speaker 1: he at? What is the principal saying? Because this is
- 9:38Speaker 1: utter nonsense.
- 9:39Speaker 3: This new art teacher has to improvise and use what
- 9:43Speaker 3: the old teacher had asked the parents to bring.
- 9:48Speaker 7: This is like your boss coming into your desk and
- 9:51Speaker 7: giving you some work and saying, I need this before
- 9:54Speaker 7: end of business.
- 9:55Speaker 4: It's five to five, sir.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Did you not see the time, sir?
- 10:02Speaker 1: I am here in spirit. My body's no longer here, okay?
- 10:05Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
- 10:06Speaker 3: When you say things like, where is the headmaster in
- 10:09Speaker 3: this situation? Headmasters are not in the class every single day.
- 10:14Speaker 3: They are operating on a higher level, a more strategic level,
- 10:18Speaker 3: a more commercial level for the school, right? Until you
- 10:22Speaker 3: escalate something, the headmaster won't know anything about it. But
- 10:25Speaker 3: even then, you can't just go straight to the headmaster
- 10:28Speaker 3: when you didn't go to the teacher first. And then
- 10:30Speaker 3: from the teacher, there's a head of department. Then from there,
- 10:33Speaker 3: there's like a junior head of school and a senior
- 10:34Speaker 3: head of school. And then from there, you go to
- 10:36Speaker 3: the headmaster. This thing of you guys just rushing to
- 10:38Speaker 3: go to the headmaster.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Unless it is something severe. And I'm talking violence.
- 10:44Speaker 6: Right?
- 10:45Speaker 3: Like something terrible that happened. Don't go to the headmaster.
- 10:48Speaker 3: First talk to the teacher. They're scared of the teacher.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Then go to the HOD. You know what I'm saying?
- 10:53Speaker 3: You can't just go straight. Because also, you must remember
- 10:55Speaker 3: the headmaster has got no line of sight of what
- 10:57Speaker 3: you're talking about. So what's the headmaster going to do?
- 10:59Speaker 3: Go back to the teacher.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Temba, you are in Soweto. What do you think?
- 11:04Speaker 4: Morning.
- 11:05Speaker 6: Morning, Anale. Morning, everybody.
- 11:07Speaker 3: Morning, Temba.
- 11:08Speaker 1: How are you?
- 11:09Speaker 6: I'm fine. I'm angry at Tembisa.
- 11:12Speaker 2: She's not angry enough.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
- 11:15Speaker 4: She's not angry enough.
- 11:16Speaker 6: This is a time where you put your civilization and
- 11:19Speaker 6: your English aside and attack the next generation.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Where you go up there and you're like, Tembisa, I
- 11:25Speaker 3: know you's a closer woman girl.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Hey!
- 11:27Speaker 6: Hey!
- 11:35Speaker 3: You say she should go there in her bonnet, eh?
- 11:39Speaker 1: In her duke, in her gown.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Yes, yes, township style.
- 11:43Speaker 6: And don't tell that teacher that now it's October for
- 11:46Speaker 6: goodness sake.
- 11:47Speaker 1: She needs to.
- 11:48Speaker 3: I always find if you're going to go complain somewhere,
- 11:50Speaker 3: do you know what the most effective thing is?
- 11:52Speaker 1: You need to go barefoot.
- 11:53Speaker 3: Because they must know that you didn't have time to
- 11:55Speaker 3: put on shoes. You are that mad. You can't even
- 11:58Speaker 3: feel that you're not wearing shoes.
- 11:59Speaker 1: You are stomping. I'm stomping on these grounds. Jumping on
- 12:02Speaker 1: this ground. Angie, you and Kruger stop. Good morning.
- 12:06Speaker 6: Morning, Annelie.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Good morning. Oh, Angie, you're a primary school teacher. We
- 12:11Speaker 1: have an expert amongst us guys. Excuse us.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Experts on the side. Angie, what do you think?
- 12:18Speaker 6: It's very late in the year to ask for that
- 12:20Speaker 6: amount of stationery. But it isn't the time where we
- 12:23Speaker 6: sit and watch movies all day either. So the first
- 12:26Speaker 6: one is our busiest time of the year because we
- 12:28Speaker 6: have revised the entire year's work.
- 12:30Speaker 1: We can't hear her at all.
- 12:32Speaker 3: Can Angie stand by? Let's ring her back. Let's ring
- 12:35Speaker 3: her back. Because, I mean, we can't not hear.
- 12:37Speaker 1: From the experts.
- 12:38Speaker 4: The experts as well.
- 12:39Speaker 1: She is a primary school teacher.
- 12:41Speaker 3: She needs to tell us what is it that grade
- 12:43Speaker 3: ones need to be doing in October in art that
- 12:46Speaker 3: requires new stationery.
- 12:47Speaker 6: But it's clear.
- 12:48Speaker 1: On my laptop, I value it.
- 12:50Speaker 3: We are done.
- 12:51Speaker 1: We are looking at the festive season now.
- 12:55Speaker 3: Asking mom where we're.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Going for holiday.
- 12:57Speaker 3: We are planning the year-end function at this moment.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Angie, talk to us. You're a teacher. What do you think?
- 13:04Speaker 6: Laurie, so I was saying that the term fall is
- 13:07Speaker 6: definitely our busiest time of year as we are preparing
- 13:10Speaker 6: for our entire year's worth of assessments and revision and whatever.
- 13:14Speaker 6: So we are not sitting watching TV all day. But
- 13:16Speaker 6: I do agree that they shouldn't be sending out such
- 13:18Speaker 6: an extensive stationery list at this time of the year.
- 13:21Speaker 6: Just the basics that they need for the general work.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Okay, but would those basics that fall under general work
- 13:29Speaker 3: not have been in the original package that we were
- 13:34Speaker 3: asked to buy in January?
- 13:38Speaker 6: So yes, the crayons and the paint and those kinds
- 13:40Speaker 6: of things, that should definitely have been included at the
- 13:42Speaker 6: beginning of the year. But the children go through pencils
- 13:45Speaker 6: like they are going out of fashion. Same as erasers,
- 13:47Speaker 6: same as colours. Some of these kids eat them. They
- 13:50Speaker 6: throw them away. They play with them. They do all
- 13:53Speaker 6: sorts of very weird things with their stationery. So sometimes
- 13:56Speaker 6: we do need to ask for more. But we do
- 13:59Speaker 6: try to plan in advance so that they have enough
- 14:01Speaker 6: for the year. But unfortunately, that is not always viable.
- 14:05Speaker 3: Okay, but in this instance, it does sound like the
- 14:06Speaker 3: teacher's got her own plans and things that she wants
- 14:09Speaker 3: to do. So the stationery that she found there doesn't
- 14:12Speaker 3: fall in line with what she wants to do. And
- 14:14Speaker 3: so my question to you is, isn't there an overarching
- 14:17Speaker 3: syllabus that all teachers, regardless of who you are, have
- 14:20Speaker 3: to fall under, right? It was decided in January what
- 14:24Speaker 3: the kids are going to be doing for the year.
- 14:25Speaker 1: You can't come in October and have different plans.
- 14:29Speaker 6: I have to agree with you there, yes. So she
- 14:31Speaker 6: should have had a separate arrangement. And then she should
- 14:34Speaker 6: have said, okay, this is what I'm going to do
- 14:35Speaker 6: for the year, term one, term two, term three, term four,
- 14:38Speaker 6: and had it all planned out from the beginning. The
- 14:40Speaker 6: only thing I can think of is that maybe the
- 14:41Speaker 6: teacher is new to the school.
- 14:43Speaker 2: She is.
- 14:43Speaker 6: And she's maybe just started in the grade, and so
- 14:46Speaker 6: she's trying to do a whole thing herself. But other
- 14:49Speaker 6: than that, no, I do agree with you, Anele. She
- 14:50Speaker 6: should have done it in January.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Okay.
- 14:52Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Angie, for... I told you guys
- 14:54Speaker 1: we have an expert in.
- 14:55Speaker 4: She just said.
- 14:56Speaker 1: She just said... She just wanted to do her big one.
- 14:58Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 14:58Speaker 1: This one is trying to... Ta-da!
- 15:00Speaker 3: She wants to.
- 15:01Speaker 1: You know, they say a new broom sweeps clean. Oh,
- 15:04Speaker 1: and she's sweeping, honey. Back to making your morning. Anele
- 15:09Speaker 1: and the club.
- 15:11Speaker 4: I love this show.
- 15:12Speaker 2: On 947.