---
title: "Street Talk: Politics in education"
description: "In this fourth film in a series of five, six activists from Equal Education unpack how politics always seems to come before the people and how the minster of basic education is no exception. They believe it is time for a systematic change, and that voters should be given the opportunity to vote in their own ministers, instead of political parties putting their people forward so that they can become millionaires and billionaires."
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "VIDEO"
author: "Street Talk"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/streettalk/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-11-18-street-talk-politics-in-education/"
published: "2018-11-18T22:35:14"
lang: "en-ZA"
word_count: 52
---

# Street Talk: Politics in education

> In this fourth film in a series of five, six activists from Equal Education unpack how politics always seems to come before the people and how the minster of basic education is no exception. They believe it is time for a systematic change, and that voters should be given the opportunity to vote in their own ministers, instead of political parties putting their people forward so that they can become millionaires and billionaires.

By Street Talk · Published 19 November 2018, 00:35 SAST

## Content

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__bCguFFg3k)

This film was produced by:

**![Image](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/Street-Talk-Logo.jpg)**

Street Talk is a groundbreaking television series aired weekly on community television. From grassroots to the establishment, our engaging programmes expose the lived realities and uncensored views of ordinary South Africans. **DM**

*Street Talk was launched in 2008 and is a non-profit organisation – visit us www.streettalktv.com*