The ABCs of post-apartheid South Africa: 25 years ago, forced use of Afrikaans in black township schools sparked unrest. Now the language struggles.(World)

The Christian Science Monitor | June 18, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: Nicole Itano Special to the Christian Science Monitor

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- The walls of the cheery preschool classroom at the Alma Mater Akademie in Krugersdorp, near Johannesburg, are covered with words 3-year-olds the world over learn: colors, numbers, animals.

But the 20 or so blond children who sit waiting for their midday snack are part of one of South Africa's new educational trends. Unheard of a decade ago when the National Party ruled, new private Afrikaans-language schools like the two-year-old Alma Mater are opening around the ...

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