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AfriForum Youth blasts Bela bill

‘cultural ethnic cleansing’

CIVIL rights organisation AfriForum Youth has likened the Basic Education Laws Amendment (Bela) Bill to the anglicisation policy applied by the British authorities in schools around South Africa after the Anglo-Boer War.

Through the policy,

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