ToekomsVonk in collaboration with various organizations and parties will have a public demonstration before the Department of Basic Education on Friday 23 February 2018 against the destruction and discrimination of Afrikaans schools. Organizations participating in the action are ToekomsVonk, MSVS, PRAAG, Boere in Nood, Federasie van Minderhede, and the VVK, FN and NKP will send representatives to support the action.
Wessel Basson from ToekomsVonk especially accused the MEC of Education in Gauteng, Panyasa Lesufi, of conducting a witch-hunt against Afrikaans schools and especially against white and brown Afrikaans communities. He is clearly busy with a dangerous game of incitement and racist statements against those who want education in Afrikaans. The constitution is clear, every child has the right to receive tuition in his or her language of choice.
We will ask Panyasa Lesufi to be fired immediately. If he is not fired, we will begin to perform orchestrated campaigns to remove him.
Since 1994, Afrikaans schools have been targeted so that there are hardly four (4%) percent Afrikaans schools left over. We live in a country where Afrikaans is the third largest language, but it is clear that certain political influences want to destroy Afrikaans.
We are also going to ask that a moratorium be placed on the forcing of English into Afrikaans schools as well as the end of intimidation and threats to principals of Afrikaans schools.
That legislation is immediately put in place against protests and protest actions within a radius of one (1km) kilometre from any school.
We also want to know whether the teachers and children who participated in a protest action at High School Overvaal were suspended or disciplined.
It is time for everyone who regards Afrikaans as mother tongue to stand up against those who want to destroy it. In 1976, Afrikaans was used as an excuse for uprisings because it was forced on black learners. What is the ANC doing differently at the moment by forcing English on Afrikaans communities who want education in their home language.
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