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Education official acts in Kuyga dispute

25 January 2013
Hendrick Mphande

THE Education Department has stepped in to intervene in the ongoing feud between parents at the Kuyga Intermediate School over mother-tongue tuition.

Tempers flared this week when coloured parents – whose children predominantly speak Afrikaans – hauled their children out of class in protest.

On Wednesday, they burnt tyres in front of the school and African parents – whose children speak Xhosa – retaliated by intimidating the coloured teachers.

There are 469 Xhosa-speaking pupils and 399 Afrikaans speakers. The Greenbushes school has 15 Xhosa teachers, including the principal, and three Afrikaans teachers.

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NOT HAPPY: Elsie Volstruis walks her daughter home from Kuyga Intermediate School where some parents have been at loggerheads over the use of English to instruct Afrikaans pupils Picture: EUGENE COETZEE
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