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España: Madrid agregará clase de Derechos LGBTI para estudiantes de secundaria

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Europa/España/Abril del 2017/Noticias/http://www.sdpnoticias.com

«Sería opcional e incluiría contenidos que sensibilicen y promuevan normas internacionales Derechos Humanos»

El gobierno de Madrid, España, se encuentra trabajando en una nueva asignatura optativa para educación secundaria que abordaría el respeto y la no discriminación a la población LGBTI.

Al respecto, la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, dijo que la materia sólo se incluirá en aquellos centros, que dentro de su autonomía, decidan implantarla.

En este sentido, la ley de Protección Integral contra la LGTBifobia y la Discriminación por Razón de Orientación e Identidad Sexual, recoge en su artículo 31.9 que:

«Dentro de los contenidos educativos de libre asignación de la Comunidad de Madrid se garantizará que todos los alumnos madrileños reciban la formación que promueva los valores constitucionales de convivencia, respeto e igualdad hacia el colectivo LGTBI».

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http://www.sdpnoticias.com/gay/2017/04/12/madrid-agregara-clase-de-derechos-lgbti-para-estudiantes-de-secundaria

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Venezuela: Cuadrantes de paz ¿Qué son y para qué fueron creados?

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Son espacios físicos que abarcan de 2 a 5 kilómetros cuadrados, demarcados en zonas de alta ocurrencia delictiva. Actualmente hay 2.119 cuadrantes en todo el país, que a su vez concentran 79 municipios donde las estadísticas reportan particulares focos de criminalidad.

En los Cuadrantes de Paz confluyen funcionarios policiales y militares, líderes comunitarios, patrullas, motos, herramientas tecnológicas, metodologías de trabajo contra la criminalidad, todo el gabinete ministerial de interés social, consejos comunales y otras formas de organización popular. Se trata de los espacios donde se concreta el plan macro de seguridad ciudadana del Estado venezolano.

El propósito fundamental es generar una relación de proximidad entre el ciudadano y los funcionarios policiales y militares, para canalizar respuestas prácticas y efectivas frente a la delincuencia.

Aunque la iniciativa fue concebida en 2013, este año los cuadrantes de paz son objeto de ajustes que incluyen: establecer estos espacios en todo el país, más allá de la ocurrencia delictiva; incrementar la eficiencia del patrullaje inteligente; incorporar GPS a los vehículos y celulares para chequear el correcto uso de recursos dentro de cada cuadrante; monitorear las tareas de seguridad y apoyar la comunicación ciudadano-funcionario a través del servicio VEN 911.

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Australia: Why does the Carmichael coal mine need to use so much water?

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Australia/ Abril del 2017/Noticias/https://theconversation.com/

 

From accidental water spills into coastal wetlands, to proposed taxpayer-funded loans, Adani’s planned Carmichael coal mine and the associated Abbot Point coal terminal can’t keep out of the news at the moment.

Last week, the granting of an unlimited 60-year water licence to the Carmichael mine, in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, rattled environmentalists, farmers and community groups alike.

In a region experiencing prolonged drought conditions, the provision of unlimited water for one of the largest mining operations in the Southern Hemisphere seems like a commitment at odds with current climate predictions. The decision has also prompted a raft of wider questions about the industry’s water use.

Why do coal mines need so much water?

Underground coal mines rely on water to reduce the hazard of fires or explosion, by using it to cool the cutting surfaces of mining equipment and prevent coal dust from catching fire.

Water also helps to manage dust produced during the processing stage, when coal is crushed and ground. Coal is then transported through pipelines as a water-based slurry for further processing.

Mines also need water for things like equipment maintenance, and for consumption by the mining communities themselves.

In total, about 250 litres of freshwater are required per tonne of coal produced. This freshwater makes up around a quarter of the total water demand during coal production, the rest being “worked” (recycled) water.

What other industries use lots of water?

The Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest underground water reservoirs in the world. It underlies 22% of Australia’s land area, beneath the arid and semi-arid parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Its aquifers supply water to around 200 towns or settlements, most of which are allowed to draw between 100 and 500 million litres (ML) per year.

The Great Artesian Basin covers almost a quarter of Australia. Tentotwo/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The Great Artesian Basin underpins A$12.8 billion of economic activity annually, according to a 2016 report commissioned by the federal government. Almost all of this is from mining and coal seam gas (A$8 billion) and livestock farming (A$4.7 billion).

In Queensland, mining and industry hold just over 1% (by number) of the water licences linked to the Great Artesian Basin but account for 10% of the water extracted. Coal seam gas accounts for a further 22% of water, with no licensing required. In contrast, livestock production accounts for 88% of water licences but just 46% of the extracted water.

The Carmichael mine’s 12,000ML forecasted use (equivalent to 4% of the water extracted from the Great Artesian Basin in Queensland last year) would put it alongside the biggest annual users of Great Artesian Basin water, such as the Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in South Australia, which currently draws 10,000ML each year.

Why does Adani need unlimited water anyway?

According to the company’s own modelling, the Carmichael mine’s annual freshwater use is projected to peak at just over 12,000ML – or roughly 13 Olympic swimming pools per day.

Despite these estimates, the water licence granted to Adani puts no limit on the water it can take from the Great Artesian Basin. However, it calls for regular monitoring of water levels, quality and flow in each aquifer that is tapped.

Unlike other controversial Queensland mining projects, such as the New Acland coal mine, Adani’s water licence application was exempted from public scrutiny, courtesy of a November 2016 amendment to the existing laws.

Water licences usually specify the total amount, and/or the daily rate, of groundwater that can be taken. Changes to a water licence to increase the amount of water must be assessed like a new application and pass public scrutiny. But with an unlimited licence, there is no need for Adani to apply for a new licence if they need more water than originally predicted.

What are the environmental effects of industrial-scale water usage on the basin?

Despite a net yearly decrease of 286,000ML in the water stored within the Great Artesian Basin, it is in no danger of running dry. The past 120 years of exploitation have used up less than 0.1% of the water stored.

The real issue is water pressure. Flows from artesian bores are now roughly half what they were in 1915. Since then, the water level in some bores has fallen by as much as 80 metres, and a third of bores have stopped flowing altogether. This directly affects the human, plant and animal communities that rely on artesian water.

Because of their isolation, the natural springs of the Great Artesian Basin are home to many unique plant and animal species. Desert springs are particularly vulnerable to declining water pressure, and many spring habitats have been irreversibly damaged by invasive species, excavation, livestock, industrial activity and even tourists.

An oasis in South Australia’s arid interior. Tandrew/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Can mining industries be more water-wise?

Recycled water is an integral part of coal mining, but it contains salt, added in the dust-management stage, which can leave the water unusable for certain processes. Nevertheless, a recent study suggests that Queensland coal mines could cut their freshwater use by 62% simply by using recycled water for processes that are not sensitive to salt levels. Diluting salty recycled water could also reduce freshwater use by 50%, and cut water costs by 40%.

Untreated seawater is perhaps the most sustainable water of all, although transporting it from coast to mine costs energy and therefore money. Its saltiness also creates chemical challenges during coal and uranium processing.

Another option to address climate-induced water challenges might be for mines to share water allocations.

Where do we go from here?

Understandably, there is significant concern that Adani’s unlimited licence will allow the mine to draw more water than predicted. Should the mine go ahead, it is important that the research community continues to scrutinise the regular water quality and usage reports that Adani is required to provide. Water licences can, after all, be revoked.

We should also be concerned about industries like coal seam gas that currently do not require water licensing, but nevertheless use huge amounts of artesian water.

Although water is an important issue, it is vital not to lose sight of the numerous other environmental impacts of the Carmichael mine. For example, an estimated 4.7 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions will result from the mining and burning of Carmichael coal. Climate warming will impact Australia on multiple fronts, including bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, increasing the intensity of tropical cyclones, causing more heat-related deaths, diseases and droughts.

Fuente:

https://theconversation.com/why-does-the-carmichael-coal-mine-need-to-use-so-much-water-75923

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East Africa: Kiswahili All Set to Be Official in the EAC

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The ministerial meeting of the regional bloc which took place here last week stressed that for Kiswahili to be made one of the working languages, Article 137 of the Treaty has to be amended.

Article 137 of the EAC Treaty recognises English as the official language of the Community but emphasizes that Kiswahili shall be developed as a status of lingua franca, a community-wide language among the populace, of the region.

EAC Treaty is a 116 page document used as a guiding principle for regional integration. The Treaty was signed on November 30th, 1999 and went into force on July 7th, 2000. It has been amended twice; on December 14th, 2006 and August 20th, 2007.

In August last year, the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) passed a Resolution to urge the Summit of the EAC Heads of State to amend the Treaty in order to provide for Kiswahili as one of the official languages of the bloc in January this year.

The Resolution sailed through at the regional Assembly’s session held in Kampala, Uganda early this year during which the lawmakers underscored the need to elevate Kiswahili from its current status of lingua franca.

The ministers directed the EAC partner states to formulate National Kiswahili Languages Policies and enhance the use of the language in official domains ahead of the Treaty amendment.

The EAC member countries were also urged to initiate the process of institutionalization of Kiswahili as one of the official languages through the establishment of National Kiswahili Councils and National Kiswahili Associations.

Article 119 of the EAC Treaty provides for the development and promotion of indigenous languages especially Kiswahili as a lingua franca of the region while English is the official language.

«Kiswahili will be adopted as an official language within the Community as soon as the EAC Summit of Heads of State amend the Treaty to accommodate the new resolution,» EAC secretariat said in a statement yesterday.

Officials of the secretariat said after amendment, partner states are expected to facilitate adoption of the language at the national level. However, they were not explicit on when the matter will be brought before the regional leaders.

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Reino Unido: The contradiction at the heart of Rachel Dolezal’s ‘transracialism’

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Rachel Dolezal, the former branch president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who gained global notoriety in 2015 after being “outed” as a white woman pretending to be black, is back with a new book on race. Dolezal, who is ethnically German, now claims that she is “transracial”, a condition she compares to transgenderism. By this she means that although she was born white, she identifies with being black, arguing that race is a social construct.

Dolezal complains of further victimisation because “transracialism” is not recognised in the same way as transgenderism. And Dolezal sees herself as triply stigmatised; because of her race, because of her trans status and also because of the perceived illegitimacy of this status.

For someone like me, concerned both with race and with the role of narrative in culture, the narrative spun by Dolezal is both confounding and uniquely fascinating. In an interview with BBC Newsnight, she announced – not incorrectly, in my view – that “race is a lie”. At the same time, she laid claim to the transracialism that she demands to be accepted as a truth.

But while Dolezal has been roundly – to borrow from the old slave spiritual – rebuked and scorned by many, her claim deserves to be considered seriously. Is there really such a thing as transracialism, or is Dolezal correct in her simultaneous – if contradictory – assertion that “race is a lie”? Because in a binary universe, the two statements cannot both be true.

I’d like to tell you a story. I found it in a book of folklore collected from real folk in the American Deep South at around the turn of the last century. The story is about a black girl who is magically transformed into a white girl. While she’s the white girl she lives a charmed life, like Cinderella at the ball. But when she becomes a black girl again, she not only loses all her privileges but worse, is accused of having murdered the now-vanished white girl, and is sentenced to hang.

Now, I won’t tell you the whole story. But “passing” – when a person with mixed African and European ancestry is sufficiently light-skinned to “pass” for a white person – has a long history in the United States. This was no small matter, since during slavery, those who “passed” successfully may have been able to escape and remain undetected, living free within the white community.

Of course, this meant that, unlike the black girl in the story, any person who “passed” would need to have a substantial amount of European ancestry. Dolezal, who cosmetically modifies her skin-tone and hair-texture to assume some characteristics associated with African descent, appears to all intents and purposes as a person of mixed European and African ancestry.

‘Black’ and ‘white’

Patti Smith’s 1978 track, Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger, plays with the construction of black identity, arguing in her song for a positive re-appropriation of blackness and that “nigger” applies to anyone excluded from mainstream society: “Jimi Hendrix was a nigger, Jesus Christ and Grandma too, Jackson Pollock was a nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger”. The idea that identities are constructed and performed has gained credence in recent decades, not least associated with the academic Judith Butler’s ideas around “performativity” (Pdf) – the idea that gender roles, in particular, are largely performed as a result of acculturation and expectation rather than representing innate characteristics.

But racial identities – and race as we understand it – were constructed in support of a political caste system in a way that gendered identities were largely not, and are wholly bound up in recent legacies of slavery and colonialism.

Alexandre Dumas, author of the Three Musketeers, had a grandmother who was an African slave. Google Cultural Institute/Wikipedia

Blanket categories of “black” and “white” are an entirely modern phenomenon. In the 17th and 18th centuries, those Europeans who were actively involved in the slave trade made a point of distinguishing between different African ethnic groups; some were considered to be better house slaves, others better field slaves. The Igbo people, for instance, were considered prone to suicidal ideation, which posed problems for the incipient slaver. In the early days of “race” as we know it, there really was no sense of the generic catch-all blackness to which Dolezal lays claim.

As generations passed, ideas of “black” and “white” were further complicated by the complex striations of racial coding that were implemented both during and after slavery, across the Americas, as a consequence of voluntary and involuntary coupling between Europeans and Africans.

This led to a dizzying taxonomy of racial mixes, including (but not confined to) so-called mulattoes, quadroons, octoroons, tercerons, quintroons and beyond, depending on how many generations back a person’s African ancestry was traced. A person might be able to pass as white if their direct African ancestry was three or four generations removed – although if their relative “blackness” was discovered, it was a source not only of shame but was a precondition of legal slavery.

The reason why any of this is important is because we must recognise that the history of race is two things. It’s both a fallacy, created in support of a master-slave caste system; and it’s a complex taxonomy based on continental and ethnic inheritance.

At no level beyond metaphor is it an identity that can be selected, because the whole point of any caste system is to create fixed separations of power that cannot be changed or chosen. If they could, then everyone would choose to belong to the privileged caste – which would render the whole caste system meaningless. At the same time, inheritance is not an accident of birth. It is not a Y chromosome rather than an X, but based on real people in one’s familial line and whose histories cannot be erased retroactively.

Dolezals’s problem is this: to choose one’s racial identity irrespective of inheritance is tantamount to an admission that race does not exist. It would be one thing to adopt a black identity as a show of political resistance and solidarity, but Dolezal is instead in danger of laying claim to what is arguably a racist fantasy of “blackness”. If we fail to take her seriously, we run the risk both of ignoring the critical issues at stake and, worse, accepting uncritically Dolezal’s repurposing of racial ideology. If we are to accept that there is any such thing as “transracial” then it should be as an opportunity for all of us to transcend the politically expedient but specious categories of race.

Instead, by claiming race as some kind of mysterious inner state divorced either from its political, historical or ethnic specificity, Dolezal could do the opposite of transcending race; rather, she runs the risk of reinforcing racial and racist models by insisting that race is an innate, inner experience rather than something imposed from without.

If Dolezal is genuine in her claim that “race is a lie”, then she must recognise that her claims to transracialism are also lies. She simply cannot have it both ways; because race either is, or it isn’t.

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https://theconversation.com/the-contradiction-at-the-heart-of-rachel-dolezals-transracialism-75820

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La ONU denuncia «más violencia» en Siria tras ataque de Estados Unidos

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Abril del 2017/Noticias/http://www.2001.com.ve/

 

La ONU denunció hoy que tras el ataque de EE.UU. contra Siria de la semana pasada ha habido «más luchas y violencia» en el país, con nuevas denuncias de armas prohibidas que han castigado zonas habitadas por la población civil.

«Es hora para pensar con claridad», afirmó el enviado especial de la ONU para Siria, Staffan de Mistura, al presentar hoy un informe ante el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas para hacer un repaso de la situación política en el conflicto de ese país.

El pasado jueves, Estados Unidos lanzó 59 misiles Tomahawk contra la base aérea siria de Shayrat para castigar al régimen de Bachar al Asad tras denuncias sobre el uso de armas químicas, dos días antes, en la localidad de Jan Shijún.

«Desde entonces hemos visto más lucha y violencia, con nuevas denuncias del uso de bombas de racimo y de barril en zonas habitadas, incluyendo las cercanías de Jan Shijún», dijo De Mistura, aludiendo a armas prohibidas por la legislación internacional.

De Mistura dijo que las acciones armadas en ese país se conocen en medio de un «frágil» proceso de diálogo político que se lleva a cabo en Ginebra, donde se han completado cinco rondas de consultas para buscar una solución política a la guerra siria.

El representante de la ONU insistió en que sólo una solución política puede poner fin a esa guerra, «y no una solución militar, a pesar de los que intentan hacer creer» que hay esa posibilidad.

La guerra en Siria, que ha causado más de 300.000 muertos y ha generado millones de desplazados y refugiados, estalló en 2011 primero como un movimiento político de oposición a Al Asad y posteriormente con un alzamiento armado.

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Emiratos Arabes Unidos: Teachers from certain countries to be fast-tracked through UAE’s new education licensing scheme

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Emiratos Arabes Unidos/Abril de 2017/Autora: Roberta Pennintong/Fuente: The National

RESUMEN: Los maestros con una licencia profesional de algunos países de habla inglesa tendrán acceso rápido a través del nuevo sistema de licencias. Los maestros, gerentes y directores licenciados de Australia, Canadá, Irlanda, Nueva Zelanda, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos y Sudáfrica pueden solicitar una exención del programa de Licenciatura de Maestros y Liderazgo Educativo. No tendrán que sentarse tras de los exámenes, saltando directamente a la etapa final de la concesión de licencias. «Sabemos que estos maestros son competentes, ya han aprobado sus licencias en un país que sabemos que tiene mucha integridad», dijo el Dr. Naji Al Mahdi, de la Autoridad de Conocimiento y Desarrollo Humano de Dubai. «Sabemos exactamente su sistema y ya hemos emparejado sus estándares con los nuestros», dijo el Dr. Al Mahdi, director de calificaciones de la autoridad. El sistema de licencias se extenderá a todo el país simultáneamente. Pero el Consejo de Educación de Abu Dhabi, que administra las escuelas públicas y regula las escuelas privadas del emirato, y el Ministerio de Educación, que supervisa las escuelas públicas de Dubai y todas las escuelas de los Emiratos del Norte, aún no han anunciado cómo se aplicará. Los maestros con calificaciones de los países seleccionados recibirán una licencia de enseñanza provisional que tendrá una validez de entre 12 y 18 meses.

Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schafer has been «disrespectful towards the rights of learners», said Judge Elizabeth Baartman in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, during arguments in the eviction case of the Grootkraal Primary School and church.

GroundUp reports that the new owner of the land, which is situated near the Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn, wants to evict the community from a portion of the farm that the community have, by their submission, used for some 185 years.

The school itself has been on the land for about 90 years. The community’s heads of argument asserts that the land that it uses «is the only place where the members of the community can get together as a group, it is the venue where all the community activities take place».

«The loss of the use of this land in effect will mean the loss of the Grootkraal community as an entity,» it states.

Baartman’s comments on the MEC’s response to the matter came after counsel for the school argued that the department failed to consult properly with the school about its possible relocation.

Both the community and the school are opposing the eviction. In a counter application to the eviction, the community is calling for the court to recognise its rights to the land, which the residents believe they have established through long standing use, or to develop the law itself to recognise these rights. Residents also want the court to register these rights against the title deed.

‘What if that was the NG Kerk?’

Advocate Anne-Marie De Vos, for the community – who are represented by Lawyers for Human Rights – said that she couldn’t find «real reason» why the owners opposed the community using the land.

«What if that was the NG Kerk? What if it were white children going to the school?» she asked, suggesting that if this was the case, the community would be allowed to continue using the land. She also called on the court to «recognise the injustices of the past».

The school wants the department to consider expropriating the land.

The department on the other hand, is not opposing the application for eviction. If the eviction is granted, the department wants to move to the school 17km away to land that currently houses a school in Oudtshoorn.

The Centre for Child Law is another respondent in the matter and also supports expropriation, as does the amicus curiae (friend of the court), Equal Education.

Problems began in 2010 when the land that the Grootkraal community had been using was sold and the school was granted a one year lease to continue operating.

When the lease expired, the department entered into negotiations with the owners of the land to extend the lease. After initially asking for rent of R32 000 a month from the department, they lowered this amount to R14 000. The department was only willing to pay R10 000.

Unable to reach an agreement, the owners sought an eviction order and the school was told that it was to close.

No engagement

Following this, the school interdicted the department from implementing the closure or relocating it without following proper consultations with the school, the governing body and the parents.

The department was also ordered to meaningfully engage with the owners to renegotiate a lease agreement.

Advocate Mushahida Adhikari, for the school and the school’s governing body, said that there is no evidence that the department complied with the order.

Adhikari highlighted the inability of the department to engage with the school about its future.

She said that the MEC needed to come to court to explain what the plan would be if the school was «relocated». She also pointed to the lack of action taken by the department while the case has been stalled over the past few years.

Responding to this, Baartman said that rural schoolchildren were the «stepchildren» of education. She said that the MEC seems to think that the court can order the relocation of the school and then the department will «make a plan».

«It is common sense, not a court in the land will do that,» a frustrated Baartman said.

‘Gross mischaracterisation’ of case

She questioned how the department came to their decision regarding the move.

«How did the department reach that decision? Was there any consultation with the school, [or] parents or was it just decided in a boardroom?» asked Baartman.

«With respect, it’s not business as usual,» she said.

Baartman said that the MEC had taken a «hands off approach». She also criticised the department for just «waiting for this case to finish» before it took action.

Advocate Ewald De Villiers-Jansen for the department, said that Adhikari’s version was a «gross mischaracterisation of the MEC’s case».

The department’s heads of argument state that following the owners’ application for eviction, the department erected a number of mobile classrooms on the grounds of the school that they were to be moved to and «undertook to provide the necessary transport» for the learners.

The department also says it upgraded the electricity and provided adequate ablution facilities.

Baartman said that in determining whether an eviction order is just and equitable she needs to know what the plans are for the children.

«I have evidence of a child getting up at 05:00. Does that mean child must get up at 04:00? [to get to the new school] What will this entail?» she asked.

Transport

She also pointed to the bad state of the roads and how negotiating these roads earlier when it is darker would be more difficult.

«What physically will happen on the ground, to say that it is just and equitable to evict these people?» she asked.

De Villiers-Jansen said that the department would provide transport for the children and that school could begin later so that children don’t need to wake up earlier.

As for the expropriation relief, he said that the court cannot compel the MEC to consider expropriation as this would be in breach of separation of powers. However, he said that the MEC may indeed consider this at a later date.

De Vos, for the community, said that given the facts, the owners are not entitled to an eviction order. She argued that the community had the right to use that land as they had used it for 185 years.

She said that there «cannot be one single person in this court in their heart that thinks it’s fair that the community must stop using that land».

De Vos insisted that the argument over exactly how big the piece of land that was used over the years or exactly what areas of the land were used, were «side issues». If need be, a surveyor could determine the extent of the land that they used.

Landless farmworkers

She said that it «shouldn’t be necessary for us to argue the justness of the community staying there». As a coloured farming community, like many others, they had used the land for years but had no rights, she said.

De Vos said that if the new owners of the land were prudent buyers they would have gone to the farm and inspected it themselves. There they would have seen signs for not just of a school, but also a church.

At this, Baartman said that the fact that there was a church on the land «should have made alarm bells go off» for the buyer. As for the suggestion that the owners wanted to bring wild animals onto the farm, De Vos said that a fence could be erected.

De Vos added that in all the farms in the Klein Karoo, there was not a single farmworker who was a landowner.

«It doesn’t exist. Why not?» she asked, saying that all the Grootkraal community was asking for was a church and a school.

The matter continues tomorrow.

Fuente: http://www.thenational.ae/uae/teachers-from-certain-countries-to-be-fast-tracked-through-uaes-new-education-licensing-scheme

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