How Mat Sabu made me accept the Malay language - lessons for the UEC issue


The writer with some old cassette tapes of Mat Sabu ceramahs.

What does the politician Mat Sabu have to do with Chinese education and the current controversy over the Unified Exam Certificate (UEC)?

My answer is that the Defence Minister and Parti Amanah Negara president was once my Bahasa Malaysia teacher.

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Andrew Sia

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