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<span>Reasons why department wants to appeal Hoërskool Overvaal decision</span>
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06 February 2018 - 16:22
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<p>The governing body of Hoërskool Overvaal had
attempted to control the admission of new learners to the school‚
insisting that no learners may be admitted to the school unless they
submit to Afrikaans-only instruction.</p>
<p>As a result‚ despite the composition of the local community
surrounding the school‚ the school remains effectively a white school.</p>
<p>These are the submissions the Gauteng Department of Education has made to the Constitutional Court.</p>
<p>The department is seeking leave to appeal against an order
of the Pretoria High Court last month‚ which set aside the department’s
instruction to the school to admit 55 learners who wished to be taught
in English.</p>
<p>In an affidavit filed with the Constitutional Court on
Monday‚ Gauteng education head of department Edward Mosuwe said
Hoërskool Overvaal was a public school with duties to the community in
which it was situated.</p>
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<p>He said the school’s governing body had thus far insisted that it must be a single-medium Afrikaans language school.</p>
<p>“As a result‚ more than 20 years after the advent of democracy it remains an almost exclusively white school.”</p>
<p>Mosuwe said the department maintained that the school had excess classroom capacity relative to neighbouring public schools.</p>
<p>Mosuwe said since before the 2016 school admissions‚ there
had been a demand from predominantly “African” residents within the
immediate vicinity of Hoërskool Overvaal for the school to accommodate
learners in its feeder area who wanted to be taught in English.</p>
<p>Mosuwe said the department concluded that Overvaal had the
capacity to accommodate the 55 learners who qualified for admission to
the school in terms of the admission regulations made under the Gauteng
School Education Act.</p>
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<blockquote>Edward Mosuwe said in the past‚ the area in which the
school was situated was a predominantly white Afrikaans area‚ but this
had changed since 1994 and the area was now dominated by non-Afrikaans
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<p>Mosuwe said the high court decision involved
important constitutional issues of procedure and substance relating to‚
among others‚ whether issues of language could be used to deny learners
admission to a public school in Gauteng.</p>
<p>Mosuwe said in the past‚ the area in which the school was
situated was a predominantly white Afrikaans area‚ but this had changed
since 1994 and the area was now dominated by non-Afrikaans speaking
persons.</p>
<p>There was now demand for the school to open up to English
learners as two other English-instruction schools in the area were
overcrowded.</p>
<p>Mosuwe said the demand was not for Afrikaans instruction to cease at the school‚ only for it not to be exclusive.</p>
<p>Mosuwe said the Gauteng admission regulations expressly
prohibited unfair discrimination on grounds of language and provided for
a system of admissions which was dictated to by location‚ and not by
language policy.</p>
<p>He said in terms of the School Act‚ the powers of a public
school governing body over admissions and language policies were subject
to any applicable provincial law.</p>
<p>“The admissions policy or language policy of Hoërskool Overvaal accordingly could not prevail over the Admission Regulations.”</p>
<p>The department has filed a similar application in the high
court seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal against the
judgment of Judge Bill Prinsloo.</p>
<p>It has indicated it would not pursue that application unless the Constitutional Court application is rejected.</p>
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