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                            <p class="">Afrikaans will no longer be the primary medium of instruction starting in 2017. </p>

                            

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                            <div class=""><span>FILE: University of the Free State. Picture: Facebook.</span>
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<ul><li style="display:inline-block"><a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/AfriForum">AfriForum</a></li><li style="display:inline-block"><a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/Trade-Union-Solidarity">Trade Union Solidarity</a></li><li style="display:inline-block"><a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/University-of-the-Free-State-UFS">University of the Free State UFS</a></li></ul>
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                                <span itemprop="articleBody"></span></p><p>JOHANNESBURG – Trade union Solidarity, <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/AfriForum" target="_blank">AfriForum</a> and AfriForum Youth say they will approach the Bloemfontein High Court for an interdict against the <a href="http://ewn.co.za/Topic/University-of-the-Free-State" target="_blank">University of the Free State</a> to stop a proposed change to its current language policy.</p>
<p>On Friday, the university’s council reached a unanimous decision to 
make English the primary medium of instruction starting next year.</p>
<p>Solidarity however claims the new policy is already taking form and 
serves to disadvantage students who want to continue their studies in 
Afrikaans.</p>
<p>“At this stage already students that have enrolled in Afrikaans are 
being forced to take their classes in English and that, in itself, is 
already discriminatory in nature because there is a contract in place 
between that student and the university that they will be able to do 
those classes in Afrikaans.”</p><p><a href="http://ewn.co.za/2016/03/15/Solidarity--Afriforum-to-oppose-new-UFS-language-policy">http://ewn.co.za/2016/03/15/Solidarity--Afriforum-to-oppose-new-UFS-language-policy</a><br></p><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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