F The Minister of Education appointed a ministerial committee, the Curriculum Management Team (CMT), to oversee the development and implementation of
South African Sign Language (SASL) as a subject to be taught in schools. The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the CMT appointed a writing team to develop
CAPS for SASL. It was decided to develop SASL as a Home Language (rather than a First Additional Language) to parallel the process of attaining official status for SASL in South Africa. The decision by the SASL CMT was to make the CAPS of SASL as close as possible to the other Home Languages in terms of structure, content and sequence.