The Gauteng Education Department\u2019s decision to change single-medium Afrikaans schools into parallel-medium schools will be challenged in the Johannesburg High Court. <\/p>\n
The Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools are calling for the preservation of Afrikaans as a language of instruction.<\/p>\n
But Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said he wants to address overcrowding in the province’s classrooms, which will affect over 124 schools.<\/p>\n
Lesufi slammed resistance to the plan as “racially motivated”, because most English speakers are black.<\/p>\n
Source: eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Gauteng Education Department\u2019s decision to change single-medium Afrikaans schools into parallel-medium schools will be challenged in the Johannesburg High Court. The Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools are calling for the preservation of Afrikaans as a language of instruction. But Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said he wants to address overcrowding in … Continue reading “Battle lines drawn for Gauteng Afrikaans schools”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":19118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12259,350,11355,11711,1783],"class_list":["post-19117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-afrikaans","tag-gauteng","tag-killer-language","tag-panyaza-lesufi","tag-schools"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/panyaza.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19119,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117\/revisions\/19119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}