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.
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Lesufi admits to flaws in his dept after Hoërskool Overvaal ConCourt ruling
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.
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Gauteng Education Dept files bid to appeal Hoërskool Overvaal ruling
The Afrikaans-medium school has been at loggerheads with the department after it refused an instruction to take 55 English-speaking pupils.
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Lesufi takes Overvaal matter to ConCourt
The Afrikaans-medium school has been at loggerheads with Panyaza Lesufi's department after it refused an instruction to accommodate 55 English-speaking pupils.
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Motshekga says she has discouraged Dept’s move to appeal Overvaal ruling
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.
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#HoerskoolOvervaal: 'Die and go back to Holland'
Hundreds of members of Sadtu marched to the gates of Hoërskool Overvaal in Vereeniging, protesting against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.
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Please respect court order, Hoërskool Overvaal SGB tells protesters
Protestors have vowed to continue demonstrating until the school’s language policy is changed.
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[OPINION] How can our schools ensure more diverse and non-racial society?
Panyaza Lesufi says it’s time for our society to identify language policies as nothing more than crude forms of racism.
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Hoërskool Overvaal: Parents urged to send pupils to school
Demonstrators have been calling for an end to the school's Afrikaans-only language policy.
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Police increase visibility at Hoërskool Overvaal
Yellow police tape has been put up just a few metres away from the main gate to keep protestors at bay.
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Protests expected to resume at Hoërskool Overvaal
Protesters are demanding that 55 non-Afrikaans speaking pupils be admitted to the school despite the high court’s ruling against this.
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Hoërskool Overvaal: Cosas demands immediate release of arrested protesters
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.
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[WATCH] Police car petrol bombed at Hoërskool Overvaal protest
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.
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[LISTEN] Petrol bomb thrown at police car at Hoërskool Overvaal
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.
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Calm returns to Hoërskool Overvaal after protesters petrol bomb police car
This is the second day of protests at the Vereeniging high school after it refused to take in 55 English-speaking pupils.
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Hoërskool Overvaal protesters throw petrol bomb at police car
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.
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Hoërskool Overvaal pupils are safe, SAHRC assured
African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters are demonstrating for a second day outside the school gates in Vereeniging.
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Protesters continue picket outside Hoërskool Overvaal
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.
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Gauteng Education Dept condemns EFF, ANC protest at Hoërskool Overvaal
Protesters burnt tyres and chanted, demanding that the school bans Afrikaans as a medium of instruction and introduce English or another official language.
