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Student Representative Council (SRC) chairperson Sabelo Ngcobo said.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">He said the college was giving priority to Afrikaans, in which case it should implement the Western Cape government’s language policy and teach in English, Afrikaans, and Xhosa. The college fell under the Western Cape agriculture department. </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">According to Ngcobo, about 80% of the students were white and Afrikaans speaking.</p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center"><div id="ad-600x50-1" class="24ad600x50" style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="noad" style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px"></div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">It currently had a dual English/Afrikaans language policy, but Ngcobo said Afrikaans was getting priority.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"Their Afrikaans privilege is blocking us. We are made to feel that we are beggars at Elsenburg."</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">AfriForum Youth said it was concerned that the college failed to act against the illegal protest. It would turn to the courts should the institution fail to act by Monday, its national chairperson, Henk Maree, said in a statement.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">Ngcobo said there would be no teaching on Friday.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">Students met Western Cape Agriculture MEC <a href="http://whoswho.co.za/alan-winde-56080" title="" rel="/Handlers/WhosWhoTooltip.ashx?url=http://www.Whoswho.co.za/hover.php?uid=56080" class="tips" style="border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(14,46,94);text-decoration:none">Alan Winde</a> on Thursday. It was decided that the CCMA would on Monday start mediation efforts between the parties involved.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"While this process is unfolding, we want... full access, we want English," Ngcobo said.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">Another student, Simphiwe Ntuza, said: "We just want English as the medium of instruction. If they want Afrikaans, they must put Xhosa also."</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">Afriforum Youth wanted the college to take disciplinary action against the protesters, and to expel Ngcobo and other SRC members involved in the disruption.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px">"We cannot stand by and watch while a small group of radicals determines the college’s agenda," Maree said.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6000003814697px"><a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Agriculture-students-demand-to-be-taught-in-English-20150813">http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Agriculture-students-demand-to-be-taught-in-English-20150813</a></span></font><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. 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