Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi said that the government needs to make a greater investment in education and technology to ensure that the return is on growing the economy.<\/p>\n
He was addressing Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube, saying this includes allowing pupils to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their school work.<\/p>\n
He was speaking in Johannesburg on Monday morning at the National Senior Certificate breakfast and award ceremony for the country\u2019s 40 top achievers.<\/p>\n
Lesufi took to the podium today to honour and celebrate the province\u2019s top achievers.<\/p>\n
He said that these learners have the potential to take the country forward, but to do that, a newfound focus needs to be placed on technology.<\/p>\n
He added that pupils should no longer worry about issues like a lack of resources, desks, or electricity in classrooms, but they should focus on what they can innovate through the use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
“Some of these children, one day they will develop that fridge that when you are still at work, you just send a text message to your fridge and say Dear fridge, please defrost this meat”<\/p>\n
He added that by building skills, learners can, in turn, contribute to the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi said that the government needs to make a greater investment in education and technology…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-22448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}