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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">New Era</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Foreign language instruction handicaps the San</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The Southern Africa San Education Forum (SASEF) says members of indigenous San minorities are handicapped in their quest for socio-economic development due to the fact that their children are educated through the medium of languages of dominant groups. <BR><BR>According to SASEF-Namibia Information and Publicity Officer, /Awebahe //Hoëseb, foreign languages are imposed on San children as medium of instruction and as language subjects in the formal curricula of education systems of the countries where they are domiciled.</P>
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