The bill seeks to transfer more power to the provincial education department to regulate school language policies, curriculum and home schooling, among other things.
JOHANNESBURG - The African Christian Democratic Party has threatened to fight the BELA Bill all the way to the Constitutional Court if it is signed into law.
About 200 ACDP supporters showed up at the Department of Basic Education offices in Johannesburg to stage a picket. The Basic Education Laws Amendment bill is up for a vote in the National Council of Provinces today and is likely going to pass with ANC majority. TCG"It's the parents who must choose. Those who want Christian education in a private Christian school, government must not interfere, they must have that Christian education and those who want to do it at home, we say government must not interfere. They must be free to educate their children.
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