<div dir="ltr"><h2><span>Please respect court order, Hoërskool Overvaal SGB tells protesters</span></h2>

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                                            Protestors have vowed to 
continue demonstrating until the school’s language policy is changed.
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                                            <span>EFF and ANC protesters burn tyres at the Hoërskool Overvaal in Vereeniging on 17 January, 2018. Picture: EWN</span>
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                                                    <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Hoerskool-Overvaal">Hoerskool Overvaal</a>
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                                                    <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Language-policy">Language policy</a>
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                                                    <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Hoerskool-Overvaal-case">Hoerskool Overvaal case</a>
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                                                <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Contributors/thando-kubheka">Thando Kubheka</a>
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                                            | <abbr class="gmail-timeago" title="6 hours ago">about 6 hours ago</abbr>
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                                                    <p>VEREENIGING - <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Hoerskool-Overvaal">Hoërskool Overvaal</a>'s
 school governing body (SGB) has called on the public to respect the 
court’s decision which found that it doesn’t have the capacity to 
accommodate 55 English speaking pupils.</p><p>On Friday, protests 
continued outside the school for a third consecutive day, calling for 
transformation and change in the school's language policy.</p><p>Demonstrations took a violent turn on Thursday when a petrol bomb was pelted at a police van.</p><p>Chairperson of the SGB Hardus Visagie delivered a statement on the school’s stance following days of protests.</p><p>“It
 is our request for everybody to respect the court order, there is an 
appeal process to follow if you’re not happy with the order and I 
believe that’s being followed by MEC [Panyaza] Lesufi.”</p><p>It was a relatively calm day outside Hoërskool Overvaal on Friday with a large police contingent keeping an eye on developments.</p><p>Protestors have vowed to continue demonstrating until the school’s language policy is changed.</p><p><em>[WATCH] Police car petrol bombed at Hoërskool Overvaal protest</em></p></span><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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