On today's show, Abrie Snyman discusses falling standards in education and how they can be turned around, with an election in South Africa coming up, and what lessons can be drawn for Europe.
GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Abrie Snyman is a Pretoria, South Africa-based architect and entrepreneur who talks about the South African education system. Once the best in Africa, it now ranks in 75th place out of 76 countries in a recent international table of education achievements.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Thomas Jackson MD graduated in 1979 from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He is registered as a doctor in Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom. He is a specialist in general adult psychiatry. A few years ago, Dr. Jackson exposed the absurd medical hoax of the "apathetic children," apparently catatonic children who were actually being used and abused by their parents for right-to-reside purposes. He highlighted how the whole Swedish journalistic and medical community was taken in. There was even a very bad Netflix documentary about the subject. On an issue where medical professionals dared not speak out, Jackson stood up for the truth and paid the price for it.