Department says Vereeniging school has ample space for 55 rejected pupils
The Gauteng education department says it is puzzled by Hoërskool Overvaal’s refusal to admit 55 pupils despite evidence that it has space. Parents of the learners denied access to the Vereeniging school are adamant that the only reason the school does not want their children is that they are black. The school approached the High Court in Pretoria to overturn the Gauteng education department’s administrative decision forcing the school to accept an additional 55 pupils from the area. The school’s governing body argues in court papers that the school is full and has no capacity to accommodate learners. But the department’s spokesperson‚ Steve Mabona‚ said this was not true as the school currently had 621 pupils and there was evidence that it had the capacity to accommodate more than 800. Mabona said they did not instruct the school to change its medium of instruction‚ which is Afrikaans‚ but only to adopt a dual medium of instruction to accommodate English. "We do not understand why t...
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