School tries to keep Afrikaans-only status.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)

The Christian Science Monitor | July 12, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: Stephanie Hanes Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- As the South African Department of Education tells it, there was a straightforward reason for forcing the Afrikaans-language Mikro Primary School to enroll a group of English-speaking first-graders: In Kuilsriver, a rapidly growing suburb east of Cape Town, there wasn't room for them elsewhere.

But to the white, Afrikaans-speaking parents and officials at Mikro, as well as to Afrikaners and opposition leaders nationwide, the government's move was nothing less ...

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