South Africa Warns on Schools
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
The government said today it won’t reopen 40 black schools in the eastern Cape province when the new school year starts in January unless students halt persistent boycotts.
The deputy minister of education, Sam de Beer, said that despite negotiations with parents and clergy, many pupils have refused to end their boycott of classes in the province’s industrial centers of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage.
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