<div dir="ltr"><br> <br><br> <br>Stellenbosch: Rector’s Afrikaans comment triggers stand-off<br>2015-05-13 16:11<br><br>S'thembile Cele, City Press<br><br><br><br><br><br> Stellenbosch University threatens disciplinary action against transformation group<br> <br><br>Management at Stellenbosch University have shut their doors and called on campus security to guard the administration building as angry students gathered outside demanding answers. <br><br>Members of transformation-seeking group Open Stellenbosch hosted a mass meeting this afternoon that turned into a march to the outside area of the admin building where management is housed. <br><br>The meeting was held to hand over a memorandum “of demands with respect to language” to the newly inaugurated rector Professor Wim de Villiers. <br><br>They say they are calling on the vice-rector of learning and teaching, Professor Arnold Schoonwinkel to retract remarks he made in the student parliament last week. <br><br>Addressing the parliament on the issue of the language policy and the alienating culture of the university towards black students, Schoonwinkel said: “I just want to know, really did you think you would come to Stellenbosch and not hear Afrikaans?” <br><br>The group’s Twitter account stated that they would not leave until Schoonwinkel came out and apologised for his “hurtful comments”. <br><br>Last week City Press reported on a lecturer who had been threatened with disciplinary action for her part in the “radical” group.<br><br><a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Stellenbosch-Rectors-Afrikaans-comment-triggers-stand-off-20150513">http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Stellenbosch-Rectors-Afrikaans-comment-triggers-stand-off-20150513</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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