Barend Daubern

July 15, 20170

Afrikaans schools – the scapegoat for government failure – Image – Die Vryburger

With the government failing not only the country but also failing in their Codesa agreement with Afrikaans speaking people, Afrikaans schools has become the new frontline in which governments own failure is reflecting. Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said he wants to address overcrowding in the province’s classrooms, which will affect over 124 schools.

Lesufi slammed resistance to the plan as racially motivated.

Once again the Afrikaners are the scapegoat for governments own failures, the number of Afrikaans schools are diminishing each year, and the government is failing in its own constitutional mandate.

(6) Languages
(1) The official languages of the Republic are Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu.

(5) A Pan South African Language Board established by national legislation must—
(a) promote, and create conditions for, the development and use of—
(i) all official languages;
(ii) the Khoi, Nama and San languages; and
(iii) sign language; and
(b) promote and ensure respect for—
(i) all languages commonly used by communities in South Africa, including German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telegu and Urdu; and
(ii) Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit and other languages used for religious purposes in South Africa.

Section 29
(2) Everyone has the right to receive education in the official language or languages of their choice in public educational institutions where that education is reasonably practicable. In order to ensure the effective access to, and implementation of, this right, the state must consider all reasonable educational alternatives, including single medium institutions, taking into account—
(a) equity;
(b) practicability; and
(c) the need to redress the results of past racially discriminatory laws and practices.

Now since no kid that is receiving an education today was touched by past racially discriminatory laws, we can only view the MEC attack on Afrikaans schools as racially motivated and discriminatory in nature against all forms of Afrikaans as a language and culture that according to the government must suppressed at all cost (mostly taxpayers cost).

At the NCP we condemn such actions against our kin, we see this as an attack on our language, culture and values and a form of psychological warfare.

Barend Daubern – Head of Civil rights NCP

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