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Published: 1/18/2007 10:27:52
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Call to discuss Afrikaans schooling
JOHANNESBURG – The future of Afrikaans schooling needs to be discussed urgently, the Freedom Front Plus said yesterday.
In a statement calling for a meeting on the issue with the Education Minister Naledi Pandor, FF Plus youth leader Cornelius Jansen van Rensburg said national conciliation demanded government pay more attention to multi-lingualism. “Until now, the government has merely tried to appease the Afrikaans community with the assurance that the Constitution guarantees mother-tongue education, and that the government would not infringe upon this right.
“Just after the ANC came to power, English-speaking pupils were purposefully enrolled in Afrikaans schools. Feasibility was not an issue at the time.
“Now that the situation has been reversed, schools which had previously been Afrikaans have now unilaterally become English schools,” he said. – Sapa.
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