<div dir="ltr"><h3 id="DailyNewsHeadline">SU language policy: AfriForum Youth returns to court</h3>
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05 March 2016
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This is after university unilaterally broke its earlier undertaking to implement its existing policy
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<p><b>Matie language policy invalid; AfriForum Youth serves urgent application on university</b></p>
<p>5 March 2016</p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The civil rights organisation AfriForum Youth
served an urgent application on the University of Stellenbosch (US)
yesterday to obtain an interdict to force the university to implement
its language policy and plan, as well as the language specifications as
published in its 2016 calendar.</span><span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">This comes only a month after AfriForum Youth
wanted to bring a similar application before the court, when the US
literally conceded on the steps of the court and undertook in writing to
take steps to ensure that all faculties will implement the university's
language policy.</span><span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">"Shortly after this, however, the university broke
its undertaking and continued with the illegal implementation of its
plans to support English as the only language of instruction on the US
campus," said Hein Gonzales, AfriForum Youth spokesperson.</span><span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">In the new court application, AfriForum Youth is
also supported by other organisations that were equally shocked by the
US's breach of a written undertaking not to depart from its language
policy and plan.</span><span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The youth organisation has been inundated with
messages of support by widely disparate groups who have been lobbying
for the preservation of Afrikaans at the Maties campus. AfriForum Youth
is hopeful that many organisations will formally support the civil
rights watchdog in the current proceedings, by joining the legal battle
as friends of the court.</span><span></span></p>
<span lang="EN-GB">"We are talking about an unacceptable and illegal
invasion of constitutional rights. The US's breach of a written
undertaking is indicative of the fact that the US administration can in
no way be trusted with the responsibility to respect and protect
constitutional rights."<br><br><a href="http://politicsweb.co.za/politics/su-language-policy-afriforum-youth-returns-to-cour">http://politicsweb.co.za/politics/su-language-policy-afriforum-youth-returns-to-cour</a><br clear="all"></span><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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