The chief executive officer of Solidarity, Dr Dirk Hermann, announced in an exciting post on social media that a settlement regarding the BELA Act has been reached at Nedlac.
The FF Plus is overjoyed and wishes to congratulate Solidarity.
According to Hermann’s post, the controversial sections in the BELA Act relating to language and admission policy will no longer be implemented on 13 December. The Department of Basic Education first needs to develop policy documents before anything can be implemented.
ccordingly, the provisions cannot be imposed on schools that are already running at full capacity, among other things.
This breakthrough follows a public participation process by Parliament during which the Bill elicited a lot of opposition.
The ANC, however, steamrollered it through Parliament just before the elections on 29 May 2024 in an attempt to circumvent an unfavourable election outcome (from an ANC perspective).
The turnout of more than ten thousand people who demonstrated at the Voortrekker Monument made it clear that the law is a problem that will not go away on its own.
The FF Plus believes this breakthrough proves that political and civil pressure can always still influence reality.
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