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<p class="gmail-story-body-text">The
High Court in Bloemfontein has granted the University of the Free State
(UFS) leave to appeal its ruling in favour of civil rights group
AfriForum's bid to stop a proposed change to the university's language
policy.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">Deputy Judge
President Fikile Mokgohloa said leave to appeal was granted on condition
that the application for leave for direct access to the Constitutional
Court is refused.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">She said in the meantime university management should put its plans on hold as the matter was currently before the courts.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">"The judgment of
this court delivered on [July 21] remains in force and is in operation
pending the finalisation of the appeals," she said.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">The university on Monday argued that the High Court had erred in their decision in July.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">Jeremy Gauntlett
SC, representing the university, told a full bench of judges that
AfriForum failed to establish the absence of irreparable harm on the
part of the university and the vast majority of its current and
prospective students.</p>
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<p class="gmail-story-body-text"><strong>Campus culture</strong></p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">"The court was
wrong in their decision. [It] was wrong when they said there was no case
of compulsory segregation... another court would come with a different
conclusion."</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">University management has applied to both the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">Gauntlett said in
its ruling the court didn't reference their heads of arguments. "There
were persistent complaints from students about campus culture and that
they do not feel welcome."</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">However, Johan du
Toit SC, representing AfriForum, said justice should be done for
students who have already registered in their mother tongue.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">"UFS students are exposed to unity and diversity and Afrikaans students shouldn't struggle."</p>
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<p class="gmail-story-body-text">In July, the High Court ruled in favour of AfriForum in their bid to stop a proposed change to the UFS's language policy.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text"><strong>Constitutional issues</strong></p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">At the time Judge
Fouche Jordaan said: "The fact that English has been introduced at the
UFS, which was a historical Afrikaans university, as a language of
instruction does not mean that Afrikaans must inevitably be replaced by
English as the dominant language of instruction."</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">In March the
university decided to make English the primary medium of instruction
from 2017, while providing sufficient scope for multilingualism across
the university.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">Jordaan said the UFS council did not consider constitutional issues involved in the decision on the new language policy.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">He said while
Afrikaans might be a barrier to black students, English was a barrier to
many coloured students who had been victims of past discrimination. A
move that decreased the Afrikaans offering would negatively affect them.</p>
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<p class="gmail-story-body-text">The university's
council said English would be the primary medium of instruction at
undergraduate and postgraduate level on the three campuses in
Bloemfontein and QwaQwa.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">Multilingualism would be supported by an expanded tutorial system designed for first-year students.</p>
<p class="gmail-story-body-text">In professional
programmes the parallel-medium teaching in English, Afrikaans, Sesotho
and isiZulu would continue. These included teacher education and the
training of theology students who wished to enter the ministry in
traditional Afrikaans-speaking churches, where there was a clear market
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