Education Minister Angie Motshekga has yet again promised that her department will be moving forward with plans to incorporate mother tongue languages in schools.
Speaking in Parliament, she said the department wanted to encourage pupils to learn in their home languages wherever possible.
Motshekga said this was a constitutional obligation.
“The Constitution lists the official languages as IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, IsiNdebele, Siswati, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, English and Afrikaans, and all these languages can be used as languages of learning and teaching or, as subjects,” she told MPs.
She also quoted the Bill of Rights, saying it provided that everyone had the right to receive education in the official languages of their choice in public educational institutions, where that was reasonably practicable.
The department had developed the National Curriculum Statement…