ANC-lawmaker orders attacks on 3 Afrikaans schools, Fochville

Friday, 20 January 2012

ANC-lawmaker orders attacks on 3 Afrikaans schools, Fochville

10:47 | Posted by Censorbugbear |

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The Commission for Promotion and Protection of the rights of cultural religious and linguistic communities (CRLRC) behaves like an extention of ANC: attacking Afriforum civil rights movement for its campaign to save the last few remaining Afrikaans-language schools: 

"ANC-regime only targets Afrikaans-language schools for their campaigns... why is that?" 

19 Jan 2012 - Civil rights organisation AfriForum says the '

Commission is consciously undermining minority communities' rights, while it should be promoting community rights in terms of its mandate as set out in section 185 of the South Africa's Constitution". 

   AfriForum's criticism of the CRL Rights Commission comes after the Commission launched an attack on AfriForum's new campaign for the protection of Afrikaans-medium schools.

   This was done when the ANC-lawmakers in the Gauteng legislature ordered a physical attack by hundreds of 'protestors' against the last few Afrikaans-language schools in Fochville. The schools were also forced by the education department to relinquish their status as Afrikaans-medium schools at the start of the 2012 schoolyear. 

   Yet there were more than enough places for English-language pupils in other schools in the vicinity. 

   Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, said the right of existence of single-medium schools is recognised in section 29 of the Constitution. "It is therefore unthinkable that an institution like the CRL Rights Commission - that was established in terms of the same Constitution - is now supporting the government's ideologically driven efforts to do away with Afrikaans-medium schools," said Kriel.
   Kriel pointed out that the parties to the constitutional negotiations agreed to include provisions for the establishment of a CRL Rights Commission in the Constitution owing to the call for regulations for the protection of minority groups. 

   "It is becoming increasingly evident that the ANC and the cadres it deployed in the CRL Rights Commission regard the Constitution's provisions relating to minorities merely as temporary concessions that had to be made in order to gain political power. Now that the ANC has gained control of almost all power structures and constitutional institutions, these provisions are being undermined," he added.

    Kriel said because the ANC government is using the CRL Rights Commission, which is supposed to safeguard community rights, to attack vulnerable minority groups like the Afrikaners, AfriForum has to increasingly turn to the United Nations and other international platforms to protect minority rights in South Africa. 

     "Cultural communities' right to culturally oriented mother-tongue schools is recognised internationally and AfriForum has already appointed an international politics expert to explore international instruments that can be used for the protection of Afrikaans schools," said Kriel. 

    AfriForum has set aside R50,000 to fight the government's actions to undermine Afrikaans schools in Fochville. 

     AfriForum encourages the public and, in particular, parents to support the "Save Afrikaans schools" campaign and to donate R10 to the legal action by texting the word 'skool' to 38655. The campaign was stepped up today with a full-page advertisement on page 9 of Beeld.  

He points out that the government's education authorities specifically target only the Afrikaans schools for their actions.

ONLY AFRIKAANS SCHOOLS ARE TARGETTED: 

   "There is not one example anywhere in the country that the minister of education intervened in the language-policies of single-medium English-language secondary schools to force non-English pupils into an English-language school."

   And while Afriforum and the Afrikaans parents in Fochville have sympathy for the masses of children in this country who have no access to good education, this claim is merely abused in order to undermine the Afrikaans-language educational facilities' policies. 

   The government is constantly dragging in the racism-card despite the fact that Afrikaans-medium schools consistently accommodate Afrikaans-speaking pupils of colour.  

The government is creating an artificial 'need for English-language education' to promote its own anti-Afrikaans agenda'.

Statement issued by Kallie Kriel, CEO: AfriForum, January 19 2012 link


January 18 2012, according to an ANC-Gauteng legislature statement, “ hundreds of black parents, pupils and petitioners will descend on three remaining Fochville Afrikaans schools…”

    Gauteng Legislature statement by Sithembele Tshwete, published 17 January 2012 - "Afrikaans schools ordered to stop denying black learners' right to be instructed in English"
     Statement by Tswete: “Tomorrow, January 18 2012 - Gauteng legislature visits Fochville Hoërskool, Fochville Losberg Primary and Laerskool Fochville – who put Afrikaans as a condition for admission of black learners: …. who have in the past turned away black students from their premises because the (primary) medium of instruction at the schools is Afrikaans.
   "Last year the Gauteng Legislature and Gauteng Department of Education intervened and instructed the schools to open its doors to black learners and stop denying them their right to be instructed in English. The Fochville Hoërskool took an issue with this and tried to fight this instruction by going to Court in December. The case was dismissed in January this year.
   "hundreds of petitioners, parents and learners will descend on these schools to register their learners.  They will be at Fochville Hoërskool at 07: 30 and then move to Lorsberg Primary at 08:30 . “ Statement issued by Sithembele Tshwete, Senior Media Officer, Gauteng Legislature, January 17 2012 –
Afrikaans schools ordered to stop denying black learners' right to be instructed in English

This kind of aggression by large numbers of violence-driven, loudly chanting black adults targetting very young Afrikaans children and their parents at the few remaining schools  which still have Afrikaans-language instruction alongside English -- has happened before: in April 2010:

AFRIKAANS SCHOOLS UNDER SIEGE BY CIVIL SERVANTS: PICTURE: SARIE MAGAZINE

In the entire year of 2010 it was a countrywide pattern – socalled ‘striking civil servants” arrived in loudly aggressive, organised groups, rushed towards the school gates of mainly Afrikaans-language primary- and high-schools countrywide – and tried to break them down and take over the classrooms – terrying the children inside out of their wits.  At most besieged schools, the parents were prepared and had organised unarmed self-defence units – and fists were flying, tempers were fraying while the parents were shoved around  and the children were hiding in classrooms, frightened by all the violence and aggression. At the Verwoerd Primary School in Parys, Free State, above, the local SAPS was even called in to stop the strikers from assaulting the parents.

http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/08/striking-civil-servants-call-for.html

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=275526&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389


http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2012/01/anc-undermines-afrikaners-human-rights.html