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AfriForum slams Dept of Basic Education's 'attack on Afrikaans'

By Bernadette Wicks

The Bill was introduced in Parliament in January and proposes, among others, requiring a provincial head of department's approval of all public schools'...

  • FILE: Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande. Picture GCIS

    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.

    261 days ago
  • DA Leader John Steenhuisen hands over a petition on 12 October 2021 to demand that Afrikaans is declared an indigenous language. Picture: @Our_DA/Twitter.

    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.

    302 days ago
  • Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande at a media briefing on 18 January 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    316 days ago
  • Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande at a media briefing on 18 January 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    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.

    316 days ago
  • FILE: Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, briefing the media on 30 June 2021. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News

    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.

    317 days ago
  • Picture: Unisa Facebook page

    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.

    321 days ago
  • Picture: Unisa Facebook page

    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.

    322 days ago
  • FILE: Stellenbosch University. Picture: @stellenboschuniversity/Facebook.com

    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.

    505 days ago
  • Filmmaker Dylan Valley. Picture: Facebook

    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.

    644 days ago
  • Picture: Unisa Facebook page

    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.

    769 days ago
  • FILE: Residents said they had asked for more schools and for non-Afrikaans-speaking pupils. Picture: EWN.

    ‘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.

    936 days ago
  • FILE: Umalusi CEO Dr Mafu Rakometsi. Picture: EWN

    Umalusi raises concerns over shortage of Afrikaans markers

    Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi made fresh calls for educators who can mark Afrikaans papers to apply.

    1035 days ago
  • FILE: The Constitutional Court. Picture: EWN

    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.

    1035 days ago
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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.

    1051 days ago
  • FILE: Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi. Picture: EWN.

    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.

    1059 days ago
  • 'Afrikaans Must Fall' scrawled across a wall at the University of Pretoria amid protests over its language policy. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN.

    '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".

    1128 days ago
  • Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr. Picture: stevehofmeyr.co.za

    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.

    1198 days ago
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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.

    1202 days ago
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