<div dir="ltr"><h1>Court to hear UFS Afrikaans case</h1>
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<ul><li class="">South Africa</li><li class="">Monday 20 June 2016 - 5:07am</li></ul>
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File: Afri-Forum and Solidarity are heading to
Bloemfontein High Court over the University of the Free State’s language
policy for 2017.
Photo: Facebook / University of the Free State
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<p>JOHANNESBURG – AfriForum and Solidarity are heading to
Bloemfontein High Court on Monday over the University of the Free
State’s language policy for 2017.</p>
<p>The organisation is challenging the university’s <a href="https://www.enca.com/south-africa/afriforum-heads-court-stop-ufs-afrikaans-plan" target="_blank">decision to drop Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.</a></p>
<p>Three months ago its council agreed that English will be the primary language used.</p>
<p>AfriForum believes the institution is depriving <a href="http://www.enca.com/south-africa/ufs-halts-afrikaans-lessons" target="_blank">Afrikaans-speaking students</a> their right to be educated in their mother tongue.</p>
<p>Language policies have recently become the bone of contention in several institutions of higher learning in the country.</p>
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