Hoerskool overvaal
FF+ serves Panyaza Lesufi with legal papers over schools’ language policy
Lesufi says he was served with legal papers in a fresh bid by the FF+ to take him on for his stance that all languages must be treated equally in schools.
This week, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi lost his court battle against the Afrikaans-medium school after 55 English speaking pupils were denied enrollment earlier this year.
The Afrikaans-medium school has been at loggerheads with the department after it refused an instruction to take 55 English-speaking pupils.
The Afrikaans-medium school has been at loggerheads with Panyaza Lesufi's department after it refused an instruction to accommodate 55 English-speaking pupils.
The High Court ruled that the school didn’t have space to admit 55 English-speaking pupils and that changing the school’s language policy was not lawful.
Hundreds of members of Sadtu marched to the gates of Hoërskool Overvaal in Vereeniging, protesting against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.
Protestors have vowed to continue demonstrating until the school’s language policy is changed.
Panyaza Lesufi says it’s time for our society to identify language policies as nothing more than crude forms of racism.
Demonstrators have been calling for an end to the school's Afrikaans-only language policy.
Yellow police tape has been put up just a few metres away from the main gate to keep protestors at bay.
Protesters are demanding that 55 non-Afrikaans speaking pupils be admitted to the school despite the high court’s ruling against this.
At least 27 people were arrested when demonstrations turned violent outside the school on Thursday after a petrol bomb was thrown at a police van.
Protests at Hoërskool Overvaal continued for the second day in succession. Demonstrators demanded an end to the schools Afrikaans-only language policy. Later in the day, a police vehicle was petrol bombed by a group of protesters.
EWN reporter Kgomotso Modise says the incident happened after school and was sudden. She says those arrested were members of the Congress of South African Students.
This is the second day of protests at the Vereeniging high school after it refused to take in 55 English-speaking pupils.
ANC and EFF members are angry over the Hight Court's ruling this week that the Education Department acted unlawfully when it ordered the school to admit 55 English-speaking pupils.
African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters are demonstrating for a second day outside the school gates in Vereeniging.
ANC and EFF supporters have been demonstrating after the Hight Court ruled that the Gauteng Education Department acted unlawfully when it orderd the school to admit 55 English speaking pupils.
Protesters burnt tyres and chanted, demanding that the school bans Afrikaans as a medium of instruction and introduce English or another official language.