AfriForum took Unisa to court after the institution adopted a language policy that phased out teaching and learning in Afrikaans five years ago. Unisa approached the Constitutional Court after the ...
Johannesburg - Unisa has told the Constitutional Court of the range of impracticalities it would face if compelled to reinstate Afrikaans as a language of teaching and learning alongside English.
Pierre de Vos teaches Constitutional law at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, where he is head of the Department of Public Law. He writes a blog, entitled 'Constitutionally Speaking', in which ...
The Dutch word for “soon” is “straks”. In Afrikaans, “straks” became “maybe”. Obviously, one can have quite a bit of fun speculating on the reasons for this linguistic divergence. “T.I.A.”, some of my ...
In efforts to contain institutional conflict at the University of Pretoria (UP) stemming from the campaigns #AfrikaansMustFall and #AfrikaansSalBly, the offer of a particular kind of multilingualism – ...
South Africa's University of Stellenbosch has stopped teaching in Afrikaans after students protested that it was a language they identify with apartheid. The elite institution announced it will use ...
Oxford is a magical place over Christmas. Fairy lights twinkle in every window. Children, wearing mittens, frolic down Cornmarket, whilst their parents, hot toddys in hand, watch on with beaming ...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has scored an important initial victory in our quest for transparency and justice regarding the events that took place during the court case over the abolition of ...
From June 27, all new content that would have appeared in Rand Daily Mail will be published only in the BusinessLIVE Opinion section ...
I know. This is totally off topic to the matter at hand. Millions of South African students are currently out of school (except the ones with a little more money). This is all due to a pandemic that ...
South Africa's top university drops Afrikaans as the main language of instruction and adopts English instead, following complaints of exclusion by students. Also, amid ongoing tensions, the EU calls ...
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