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Alana Bailey |
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21 September 2016
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Organisation says High Court ruling does not stop implementation but
they will take on university management itself over policy
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<p><b>AfriForum ready to tackle Unisa’s language policy, even if court ruling doesn’t stop implementation</b> </p>
<p><i>21 September 2016</i></p>
<p>While today’s ruling of the Pretoria High Court does not stop the
implementation of the 2017 language policy by the University of South
Africa (Unisa), AfriForum is ready to tackle the university management
itself in court over the policy.</p>
<p>Unisa’s new language policy determines that as of 2017, English will
be the only language of instruction at this institution and that
Afrikaans, currently the medium of instruction for between 20 000 and
30 000 students at this institution, will henceforth no longer be used.
AfriForum already laid a charge against the university management’s
acceptance of the new policy.</p>
<p>According to Alana Bailey, Deputy CEO of AfriForum, the honourable
course of action would have been for management to have halted the
implementation, but Unisa however did not want to give any undertaking
of this nature.</p>
<p>In light of the ruling AfriForum encourages students to bring their
need for Afrikaans study under the attention of university authorities.
“The courts can protect the rights, but the future of the language lies
especially in the hands of Afrikaans-speaking people – it is their duty
to claim and use it. They must also personally make their disgruntlement
with the new policy and implementation thereof clear.”</p>
<p>“AfriForum views the protection of students’ constitutional right to
Afrikaans instruction as the biggest importance and is willing to defend
it to the highest level with legal action,” says Bailey.</p><p><a href="http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/afriforum-ready-to-tackle-unisas-language-policy">http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/afriforum-ready-to-tackle-unisas-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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