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                                        Members of the EFF Students Command at the University of Pretoria. Picture: EFFSC Facebook                                      </p>
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                                Morolane said a decision would be taken immediately after the exams.                      </h2>
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                                <p>Talks around the language policy at the University of Pretoria 
(UP) must be concluded by Friday, the EFF Students Command (EFFSC) said 
on Thursday.</p>
<p>Speaking to <em>The Citizen</em>, EFFSC president Mpho Morolane said they were unhappy about how the talks had been conducted.</p>
<p>“However, we are saying that deliberations over language policy must continue, but we are giving them until Friday.</p>
<p>“We will allow students to continue with their exams, which we expect to be concluded two weeks from now,” Morolane said.</p>
<p>He said a decision on whether there should be a protest or other action would be taken immediately after the exams.</p>
<p>Early this year, lectures at the institution had to be suspended amid
 a protest by students who were calling for the use of Afrikaans in 
lectures to be completely scrapped.</p>
<p>The university’s response at the time was that English would be used as the primary language.</p>
<p>“We have also proposed that Afrikaans not be totally scrapped, and 
rather that it, together with Sepedi, be used as additional support 
language in the event that a student does not fully understand the 
English lecture,” university spokesperson Anna-Retha Bouwer told <em>The Citizen</em> at the time.</p>
<p>The university was not immediately available for comment on Thursday morning. – <em><a href="mailto:stevent@citizen.co.za">stevent@citizen.co.za</a></em></p>

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