JOHANNESBURG - Afrikaans schools are worried they won't be able to control their own language policies in the future if the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill is passed.
When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country's universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English ...
The continuing erosion of Afrikaans as a recognised official language and as a language of tuition is a cause for concern. Afrikaans is South Africa’s third most widely used language, and is the first ...