John Perry’s letter regarding Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi’s criticism of Solidarity’s proposed Afrikaans-language occupational training college takes me back to 14 years before Lesufi was born, when farmworkers started teaching me to speak Afrikaans because they all spoke the language in our area (“Afrikaans college meets critical need (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2019-10-01-letter-dont-confuse-race-and-language/)”, September 26).
I then went to an Afrikaans-medium primary school because that was all there was in close proximity to our farm...
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