Chinese government aids South African Chinese language pilot program (Linked to Record ID#60262)

Project narrative

In March 2016, it was reported that the Chinese government had pledged to aid South Africa's Department of Basic Education in implementing a pilot program to teach Chinese language in Gauteng schools (支持南非汉语教学试点工作). In March 2015, the South African government announced the inclusion of Chinese into the national education system. Since 2016, the Chinese language teaching pilot has been successfully launched in these 10 primary and secondary schools in Gauteng. The aid would come in the form of 2000 textbooks, 100 teachers and volunteers from China, training for 200 local teachers at a local Confucius Institute, and Confucius Institutes Scholarships to train teachers in China. On March 6, 2017, the Chinese Embassy in South Africa donated smart boards and Chinese language books to these schools (described in #60262).