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<h2><span>Gauteng Education MEC heads to court over school's language policy</span></h2>
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MEC Panyaza Lesufi says that
he already spoke to three Krugersdorp schools that will be taking in
English pupils from this year onwards.
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<p>JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng Education MEC <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Panyaza-Lesufi">Panyaza Lesufi</a> says he is speaking to Afrikaans schools which are still using the language to exclude certain pupils.</p><p>More than 30,000 grade one and grade 8 pupils have yet to be placed ahead of the start of the 2018 academic year.</p><p>Lesufi says he already spoke to three Krugersdorp schools that will be taking in English pupils from this year onwards.</p><p>“I’m
going to court on Tuesday. There’s a school that’s refusing to take
English speaking learners there and we forced them to open up and they
have taken us to court. </p><p>“So we’re in court on Tuesday to fight
them and confront them. But Afrikaans people also have the right to
learn in their own language.”</p>
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</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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