Afrikaans
AfriForum slams Dept of Basic Education's 'attack on Afrikaans'
The Bill was introduced in Parliament in January and proposes, among others, requiring a provincial head of department's approval of all public schools'...
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Nzimande hits back at DA over language policy complaint to UN
The party is calling for UN intervention to force Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande and government to recognise Afrikaans, as well as the Khoi, San and Nama, languages as fully-fledged indigenous languages in its new language policy framework for higher education institutions.
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DA marches for Afrikaans to be declared indigenous language in higher education
DA leader John Steenhuisen lead a protest earlier on Tuesday together with shadow public service and administration minister Leon Schreiber.
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Nzimande dismisses DA complaint over Afrikaans as an official language
The DA lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission, saying the minister's insistence on defining Afrikaans as a foreign language in South Africa was hateful and unconstitutional.
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DA: SAHRC must force Nzimande to recognise Afrikaans as an indigenous language
The DA said Minister Blade Nzimande's insistence on defining Afrikaans as 'a foreign language' in South Africa was hateful and unconstitutional.
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DA: Nzimande's insistence on defining Afrikaans as foreign language is hateful
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
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AfriForum to monitor Unisa's implementation of ConCourt ruling on Afrikaans
On Wednesday, the court ruled that the university had to change its language policy to include teaching and learning in Afrikaans by the start of the 2023 academic year.
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AfriForum wins battle to have Afrikaans as medium of teaching at Unisa again
The Constitutional Court has given Unisa until the start of the 2023 academic year to revise its language policy.
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DAK Network to march against ‘erasure’ of Afrikaans at Stellies
Chairperson of the organisation Danie van Wyk said more needed to be done to ensure Afrikaans remained one of the teaching languages at Stellenbosch University.
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The filmmakers advancing a radical Black Afrikaans
A decade after the release of Dylan Valley’s debut film, Afrikaaps: The Documentary, artists are working with Afrikaans in exciting ways to reflect on the history and future of the language.
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Court: Removal of Afrikaans as medium of instruction at Unisa was unlawful
The appeal was brought by lobby group AfriForum after the High Court in Pretoria ruled in favour of Unisa’s English-only language policy.
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‘We demand a new school for non-Afrikaans-speaking pupils’ – Klapmuts parents
Parent have asked where they should send their children as English is not a medium of instruction at Klapmuts Primary.
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Umalusi raises concerns over shortage of Afrikaans markers
Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi made fresh calls for educators who can mark Afrikaans papers to apply.
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Indigenous languages are being diminished, says ConCourt
The Constitutional Court has said that while it agreed that Stellenbosch University should use English as the main medium of instruction, the reality was that indigenous languages, including Afrikaans, were being diminished.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Let's give Solidarity's 'university' its due
It would seem that too many of us assume the hegemony of English as an academic language is as natural as leaves falling on an Autumn day. It is not, write Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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Solidarity’s Afrikaans university started ‘out of anger’, says Lesufi
Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi spoke to Cape Talk’s Kieno Kammies on Monday about the construction of the Afrikaans private vocational training college.
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'Decolonising classrooms doesn't mean scrapping Afrikaans' - Lia Snijman
Stellenbosch University journalism student Lia Snijman said that multilingualism - which includes Afrikaans - is "essential if we want all South Africans to have the opportunity to flourish".
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MIA LINDEQUE: When will Afrikaners cut ties with Steve Hofmeyr?
As an artist, Steve Hofmeyr has a huge platform that he uses to not only spew his own hatred, but to mobilise other Afrikaners around a political standpoint. Mia Lindeque says this is unacceptable.
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NC parents call for English-medium school in Namaqualand
The parents of over 120 learners say they are battling because there are only Afrikaans public schools in the area.
