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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'...
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.
DA leader John Steenhuisen lead a protest earlier on Tuesday together with shadow public service and administration minister Leon Schreiber.
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.
The DA said Minister Blade Nzimande's insistence on defining Afrikaans as 'a foreign language' in South Africa was hateful and unconstitutional.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande.
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.
The Constitutional Court has given Unisa until the start of the 2023 academic year to revise its language policy.
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.
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.
The appeal was brought by lobby group AfriForum after the High Court in Pretoria ruled in favour of Unisa’s English-only language policy.
Parent have asked where they should send their children as English is not a medium of instruction at Klapmuts Primary.
Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi made fresh calls for educators who can mark Afrikaans papers to apply.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
The parents of over 120 learners say they are battling because there are only Afrikaans public schools in the area.