There was a sigh of relief yesterday after the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill process was delayed at the...
There was a sigh of relief yesterday after the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill process was delayed at the National Council of Provinces .yesterday picketed outside the department of basic education to protest against the Bela Bill, holding posters with slogans such as “Afrikaans schools are our right” and “Bela is bad”.“The fact that better attention is being paid to parliamentary procedures also shows public pressure is succeeding in preventing Bills from being lightly steamrolled.
“Although the latest amendments now give school governing bodies the initial decision on language and admissions policies, the final approval still rests with the provincial head of education.“Regardless of the intentions of the current heads of education, Bela offers the opportunity for someone with ill intentions to deal a tremendous blow to Afrikaans in public schools, and we cannot let this continue without opposition,” he said.
Nkosi said the government should be focussing on other things. Dr Wynand Boshoff, Freedom Front Plus MP and chief spokesperson of basic education, said the controversial Bill had suffered an unexpected setback at the NCOP because it was not published on the prescribed parliamentary list of announcements, tablings and committee reports .“The Bill has to be correctly published before the NCOP can consider and adopt it. Then it will be referred back to the National Assembly.
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