South Africa: Ermelo high school fights for Afrikaans

[Francis Hult]

Via lgpolicy...


Ermelo high school fights for Afrikaans
ERNEST MABUZA  Published: 2009/07/06 06:56:06 AM


THE admission policy of Hoërskool Ermelo was nonracial because the
school admitted pupils of all races willing to receive tuition in
Afrikaans, the school and its governing body have said in a written
submission to the Constitutional Court. The governing body and
Mpumalanga education department are litigating over the school's
Afrikaans-only language policy. The school and the governing body are
opposing the department's appeal against the Supreme Court of Appeal
judgment in March that the governing body, and not the department, had
exclusive power to determine the language policy of an existing
school.

Full story:
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=74894


_______________________________________________
Edling mailing list
Edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
https://lists.sis.utsa.edu/mailman/listinfo/edling
List Manager: Francis M. Hult