1. Bengu says he wants to protect these schools for now but expects that many will fold, along with some of the smaller formerly white colleges. 2. Her granddaughter and her nieces and nephews can finally attend formerly white schools that have books, computers and sports fields, she told me. 3. Most of the students are from black families that have recently moved into formerly white areas of the town and therefore live near the school. 4. Others, including parents, complained about the busing, and blamed desegregation for everything from low test scores to an outbreak of lice in formerly white schools. 5. The process of assimilation has not always been easy in the formerly white schools. 6. Local elections last year joined the formerly white town and its neighboring black township as one municipality. 7. Located in privileged suburbs, the formerly white and Asian public schools have superior material resources and higher school fees. 8. National and provincial education officials warned this week of stern measures, such as funding cuts, if formerly white schools still discriminated. 9. On Tuesday, riot police fired a stun grenade to halt a confrontation between white and black parents at the formerly white high school. 10. Riot police in Vryburg fired a stun grenade Tuesday to halt a confrontation between white and black parents at a formerly white high school. |