In the same context, the role of school principals becomes the key in ensuring that the culture of teaching and learning is regenerated. It is in this regard that President Thabo Mbeki, addressing a meeting in January 8 in the Northern Province, singled out school principals as the people who must play their expected role as managers in order to ensure that things are done accordingly so that we get the desired results. Communities also have their role to play in ensuring that the process of teaching and learning is carried out as expected. They certainly have to play a role in the form of governing bodies. They should assist teachers to carry out their duties by attending to issues that enhance the environment of learning and teaching.
Learners also have their own role to play.
Theirs is to learn and work hard and behave as any learner is expected to behave. Discipline and good behaviour is part of the lessons that learners should know they have to learn. If they carry out all of these they make the work of their teachers easier and therefore the environment of learning and teaching becomes conducive for good results. This is what, among others, Tirisano means. We are all stakeholders in this important task of our society.