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<span>Other Afrikaans schools' say ‘welkom’ to English-speaking pupils</span>
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21 January 2018 - 05:00
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<p>While Hoërskool Overvaal in Vereeniging refuses to
admit 55 black English-speaking pupils, many other Afrikaans schools
have become multilingual.</p>
<p>Among the most recent to do so are Hoërskool Jan Viljoen and
Hoërskool Riebeeckrand in Randfontein on the Gauteng West Rand. Both
will each admit up to 105 English-speaking Grade 8 pupils this year.</p>
<p>Hoërskool Riebeeckrand principal Annelize van den Berg said: “I think
it’s the correct decision that we’ve made and I feel good about it.
Nobody came to me to say: ‘We don’t like it; we don’t want it.’</p>
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<p>“The teachers and other learners are very positive. I am really experiencing a good feeling among the teachers about this.”</p>
<p>This week violent protest broke at Hoërskool Overvaal since a court
ruled that Overvaal did not have to accept 55 English-speaking pupils
into the Afrikaans-medium school. <br></p><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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