MEDIAVERKLARING ROODEPOORT, SUID-AFRIKA GEEN EMBARGO
MAANDAG 23 OKTOBER 2023. (English version below)
UITGEREIK DEUR ADV. JURG PRINSLOO SC, LEIER, AFRIKANER SELFBESKIKKING PARTY
ONDERWERP: DIE “BELA”-WETSONTWERP: ʼn VERDERE DOELBEWUSTE AANSLAG TEEN AFRIKAANSE ONDERRIG.
“Die “Basic Education Laws Amendment Act”-wetsontwerp word tans deur die ANC-regering en sy meelopers deur die parlement gedruk. Dit is ʼn verdere doelbewuste aanslag teen Afrikaanse onderrig” sê advokaat Jurg Prinsloo SC, leier van die Afrikaner Selfbeskikking Party in ʼn mediaverklaring.
Met die wetsontwerp word beoog om onder andere die huidige bevoegdheid van skoolbeheerliggame om die onderrigtaal en toelating van leerlinge in staatskole te beheer, weg te neem en dit in die hande van regeringsfunksionarisse te plaas.
Uitvoerende Rade sal in terme van die wetsontwerp ook die bevoegdheid kry om staatskole saam te smelt en te sluit en beheerliggame op sogenaamde “redelike gronde” te ontbind.
Advokaat Prinsloo sê die wetsontwerp is duidelik ʼn poging om migrering van sogenaamde “swart” leerlinge wat Engels as onderrigtaal verkies, na Afrikaans-medium staatskole af te dwing en te versnel. Sodoende word ʼn verskoning geskep om daarna daardie skole in Engels-medium skole te omskep.
Hy sê dit is duidelik dat die ANC geen voorneme het om sy aggressiewe aanslag teen Afrikaanse onderrig te laat vaar nie.
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MEDIA STATEMENT ROODEPOORT, SOUTH AFRICA NO EMBARGO
MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 2023 (Afrikaanse weergawe bo)
ISSUED BY ADV. JURG PRINSLOO SC, LEADER, AFRIKANER SELF-DETERMINATION PARTY
SUBJECT: THE “BELA” BILL: AN INTENTIONAL FURTHER ONSLAUGHT AGAINST AFRIKAANS EDUCATION
“The Basic Education Laws Amendment Act” Bill is being pushed through parliament by the ANC and its cohorts. It is an intentional further onslaught against Afrikaans education” says Advocate Jurg Prinsloo SC, leader of the Afrikaner Self-determination Party in a media statement.
In terms of the bill, the current legal authority of school management boards to control the language of instruction and admission of scholars to state schools will be taken away and handed to government functionaries.
Executive Councils will in terms of the bill also acquire the authority to merge state schools and to close state schools and to dissolve their school management boards on so-called “reasonable grounds”.
Advocate Prinsloo says the bill is clearly an effort to ensure that the migration of so-called “black” scholars who prefer English as language of instruction to Afrikaans medium state schools, can be enforced and expedited. That process would in turn create an excuse to thereafter convert those schools into English medium schools.
He says that it is clear that the ANC has no intention to relinquish its aggressive onslaught against Afrikaans education.
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