The Freedom Front Plus is planning on taking MEC of Education Panyaza Lesufi to court.
But Lesufi said that he is not intimidated!
The FF+ submitted a formal complainy in which Lesufi is accused of contravening Section 29 272 times when he called for Afrikaans-speaking schools in Gauteng to switch to English as a medium of instruction.
According to the affidavit, Lesufi has been accused of violating Section 29 of the Constitution.
The section states that everyone has the right to receive education in the official languages or languages of their choice.
The affidavit, signed by FF+ MP Adriaan Van Staden, accuses Lesufi of a hostile attitude towards Afrikaans.
“Since 2014, the Honourable Lesufi’s actions and his public campaign against Afrikaans, labeling it the so-called Apartheid language and the language of the oppressor, serve as proof that the MEC is in contempt of Seciton 29 of the Constitution and is, thus, violating Seciton 135 of the Constitution,” the affidavit reads.
But Lesufi has hit back.
“I am honestly not intimidated by those who think a non-racial education system is a breach of the constitution,” he said.
“Non-racialism is the future, and I am ready to face those frivolous and time-wasting charges.”
