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                                University of Free State’s language policy put on ice                                </h1>
              
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                                In July, the high court ordered UFS to review its 
approval of a new language policy, in terms of which Afrikaans as medium
 of instruction was to be phased out.                     </h2>
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                                <p>The Free State High Court in Bloemfontein yesterday ruled that 
the University of the Free State (UFS) may not implement its new 
language policy before the institution’s appeal against an earlier 
ruling in favour of Solidarity and AfriForum has been concluded.</p>
<p>In July, the high court ordered UFS to review its approval of a 
new language policy, in terms of which Afrikaans as medium of 
instruction was to be phased out. This was after AfriForum and 
Solidarity had approached the court to review the new language policy.</p>
<p>AfriForum deputy head Alana Bailey said the UFS had refused to give 
an undertaking that the new language policy would not be implemented 
until the appeal had been concluded.</p>
<p>“We approach the high court with an urgent application to ensure 
those who intended to study in Afrikaans in 2017 would have the right to
 do so,” Bailey said.</p>
<p>The high court also granted the UFS leave to appeal to the Supreme 
Court of Appeal should its application for direct access to the 
Constitutional Court fail.</p>

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