[EDLING:302] South Africa: Ermelo language battle in court

[Francis M. Hult]

Citizen

Ermelo language battle in court

PRETORIA – The tax payer should have to spend R30 million building new schools 
when classrooms were standing empty and children were going to bed hungry, a 
Pretoria High Court Judge said on Friday.
Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe said this during argument by counsel 
for Hoerskool Ermelo in an application for leave to appeal against a ruling by 
a full bench of the high court that it become a dual medium school.
The school first went to court in February in an attempt to retain its 
Afrikaans-only character. Judge Bill Prinsloo granted an interim interdict, 
suspending a decision by an Mpumalanga education department committee that the 
school admit pupils wanting to be taught in English, and become dual medium.

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