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No change to UP language policy despite court order </h1>
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The university said the current policy still stands,
pending the outcome of an appeal application by AfriForum.
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<p>Despite a high court ruling to continue phasing out Afrikaans as a
medium of instruction at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 2017,
timetables for first year students showed scheduled Afrikaans classes.</p>
<p>According to the timetables, Afrikaans classes are offered across the
Hatfield, Groenkloof and School of Engineering campuses, with bilingual
classes across all campuses, including the Mamelodi campus.</p>
<p>The university said the language policy remained the same as
AfriForum filed an application for leave to appeal the court’s December
ruling.</p>
<p>UP spokesperson Rikus Delport told The Citizen the current policy still stands, pending the appeal application outcome.</p>
<p>“Once a decision is made and in our favour, it needs to go to the
department of higher education for approval before we can change the
policy. We don’t know yet when that will be as the application is
apparently not on the roll yet,” he said.</p>
<p>AfriForum, however, said not only should the education department
approve the new language policy, they first had to grant permission to
change the institution’s statute.</p>
<p>Referring to a letter sent in July last year, AfriForum deputy CEO
Alana Bailey said the department had refused to grant the university
permission to change the language policy until the court process was
concluded.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://citizen.co.za/news/1242432/ups-language-shift-on-hold-for-legal-nod/">READ MORE: UP’s language shift on hold for legal nod</a></strong></p>
<p>The letter read: “The minister has not yet taken a decision on the
issue and shall not take such a decision to approve and publish the
amended Institutional Statute of the University of Pretoria pending the
determination of the high court review proceedings.”</p>
<p>Former leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command at UP
and also leader of the #AfrikaansMustFall movement, Kabelo Mahlobogwane,
said AfriForum was in a “state of denial” over transformation at the
university.</p>
<p>“This is our struggle. We are going to force transformation with all
means necessary. They [AfriForum] are confronted by a reality, which is
hard for them to believe. The time for white Afrikaner supremacy is no
more. AfriForum will have to accept that,” he said.</p><p><a href="http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1423428/no-change-to-up-language-policy-despite-court-order/">http://citizen.co.za/news/news-national/1423428/no-change-to-up-language-policy-despite-court-order/</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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