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<h1>R150K to promote isiXhosa at Maties</h1>
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June 1 2015 at 11:40am <br>
By Carlo Petersen
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<span class="">Stellenbosch University has
created a fund for the development of isiXhosa as an academic language
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<p>Cape Town - Stellenbosch University (SU) has created a fund for the
development of isiXhosa as an academic language at the university. </p>
<p>Its management announced on Sunday that R150 000 will be awarded annually to promote the language. </p>
<p>“A key component of the university’s language policy is that the
institution accepts responsibility for the promotion of isiXhosa as an
academic language and language of social interaction judiciously. The
fund will help realise this in a practical way,” said SU vice-chancellor
Wim de Villiers. </p>
<p>De Villiers said the initiative was in line with SU’s language policy, which was adopted by council in November last year. </p>
<p>“Stellenbosch is a world-class multilingual South African university –
one of a few in this category. We are trying to ensure that language is
not a barrier to access, but a tool for success.” </p>
<p>He said the university will also contribute to a new prize for
research in Afrikaans. “The award is additional to the work already
being done to promote isiXhosa. </p>
<p>“(It will be promoted) As an academic field in the Department of
African Languages up to PhD level; short courses in basic communication
skills; career-specific communication in Education and in Medicine and
Health Sciences, and the discipline-specific terminology guides in, for
example, social work, sociology, psychology, law, and economic and
management sciences.” </p>
<p>The SU Language Centre also has developed sport terminology in three
languages for rugby, soccer and cricket and the terminology list for
soccer was launched just before the World Cup, he added. </p>
<p>Activist group Open Stellenbosch spokesperson Sikhulekile Duma called the initiative a publicity stunt. </p>
<p>“They have said they will do a whole bunch of things in the past but
it never gets done. Their main aim should be making sure lectures in
every faculty are done in English, a language we can all understand,” he
said. </p>
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