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        ERNEST MABUZA | 2017-03-29 06:57:37.0
        
            
            
                









        

        


            
        
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        The University of the Free State acted lawfully when it adopted a
 new language policy in March last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal 
ruled yesterday.
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        <p>The court upheld an appeal by the university against a ruling
 of the Bloemfontein High Court in July last year, which reviewed and 
set aside the decision to adopt the new policy as unlawful.</p><p>Trade 
union Solidarity and rights group AfriForum had reviewed the language 
policy in court. The policy replaced Afrikaans and English as parallel 
mediums of instruction, with English as the primary medium.</p><p>The 
university had approved the dual-language policy in 2003. It sought and 
obtained a mandate from its council to formulate a new language policy 
in June 2015.</p><p>"UFS was entitled to adopt a new policy because it 
was no longer reasonably practicable to continue with the 2003 policy, 
which had the effect of segregating the student community along racial 
lines," Judge of Appeal Azhar Cachalia said.</p><p><a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2017/03/29/Court-upholds-UFS-language-policy-appeal">http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2017/03/29/Court-upholds-UFS-language-policy-appeal</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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