[lg policy] South Africa: ANC wants new language policy

[Harold Schiffman]

ANC wants new language policy

December 20 2012 at 05:25pm
By Andre Grobler



Bloemfontein - The ANC wants the teaching of an indigenous language to
be compulsory in all schools, social transformation sub-committee
chairman Joe Phahla said on Thursday. “We talking about official
languages,” he told reporters on the final day the African National
Congress national conference in Mangaung.

“Once it is policy, even a school in Waterkloof would have to teach a
language such as Tswana, for example.” Phahla said the language would
depend on the region where the school was situated. Sesotho would, for
example, be taught in the Free State.

Asked about the compulsory singing of the national anthem in schools,
committee member Paul Mashatile said no decision was taken. “We want
to promote the singing of the national anthem. We have not yet made it
compulsory but in some schools it is being sung daily already.”
Mashatile said it was decided that the ANC itself should sing the full
national anthem at every meeting to set an example - and not just the
part of Nkosi Sikelel’iAfrika.

The committee also decided that all cultural practices not in line
with the Human Rights Bill should be outlawed. These included the
custom of forced marriages of young girls, among others. - Sapa

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/anc-wants-new-language-policy-1.1443829#.UNslOKxrSSo



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