The battle for access to suburban schools moved to a township yesterday when Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi slugged it out with Afrikaners worried about the future of their language and their culture.Members of AfriForum flocked to a Tembisa hall to hear Lesufi and AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel speak. AfriForum believes that forcing Afrikaans-medium schools to take English pupils means the schools will inevitably become English-only and that the right to be taught in Afrikaans will be extinguished.Kriel said English-speaking pupils are constantly pushed into Afrikaans schools by the department because of the lack of good schools in the province.AfriForum contended that English-speaking pupils were being funnelled into Afrikaans schools in a spirit of "vengeance", the intention being that Afrikaans-medium schools would eventually cease to exist.The Gauteng education department served the predominantly Afrikaans audience vetkoek and koeksisters during a tea break.Lesufi promised th...
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