E/CN.4/1999/15/Add.1 page 10 Education 35. A school programme known as Curriculum 2000 will shortly be introduced with a view to purging teaching material of the falsehoods proclaimed by apartheid. Multilingualism will be encouraged through the eleven official national languages (Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, Sepedi, siSwati, Sesotho, Setswana, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and isiZulu), which will be taught on equal terms. Municipal councils 36. These bodies are increasingly coming to reflect the racial and ethnic composition of the country. Several municipal councils, the exception being Cape Town, are controlled by a black majority which collaborates with municipal councillors from White-dominated parties such as the National Party. In Pretoria’s municipal council, Blacks and Whites from the ANC demonstrate through their work to integrate the various communities their desire to overcome racial barriers. Development programmes for the surrounding townships have already been formulated. Through the cooperation which has been established between Whites and Blacks, Pretoria is seeking to become a showcase for the new South Africa. The Army 37. Renamed the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in place of the South African Defense Force, the army previously dedicated to destabilizing South Africa’s neighbouring States and to launching attacks against the freedom fighters of the ANC, the PAC and other parties is now attempting to integrate the various armed groups which fought against apartheid into a single transracial body. The government’s objective is to destroy the army’s symbolic identity as an essential pillar of apartheid and turn it into a melting pot of national unity and a law-abiding democratic institution. A white paper entitled Defence in Democracy: White Paper on National Defence for the RSA spells out the army’s new role. It will apply within its ranks the Government’s policy of equal opportunity and positive action which calls for non-discrimination with regard to racial origin, sexual or religious persuasion, or for other reasons. A civic training programme, centred mainly on essential aspects of democracy, the South African Constitution, the Human Rights Charter, international humanitarian law, cultural diversity and military ethics, has been published in a manual entitled South African National Defense Force Civic Education Guidelines and is being implemented. It is complemented by a military training programme intended to provide, inter alia, the opportunity for the most deserving soldiers from the freedom movements to gain promotion. Currently, the 105 040 soldiers who make up 80.50 % of the South African army are distributed as shown in the table below, which was provided for the Special Rapporteur by the South African military authorities.