The Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says all schools in South Africa belong to all races. Earlier the MEC held a media briefing on the concerns surrounding the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill. The so-called BELA Bill seeks to amend the South African Schools Act and address a variety of issues including the language policies at schools, home education, and alcohol use on school premises. The DA says under the Bill which they describe as discriminatory, the heads of provincial Education departments and MECs will ultimately decide what language is taught at schools and who is admitted to the school. We are joined via ZOOM by Professor Leketi Makalela, He is the founding director of the Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacies at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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