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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 11 January 2008 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Names" 2008.01.10 (08) [E]<br><br></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Elsie Zinsser</span> <span><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za" target="_blank">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span> <br>Subject: LL-L "Language education"
2008.01.10 (02) [E]<br> <div><span><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"></span></font></span> </div></div><div class="Ih2E3d"> <div><span><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">
The
following article indicates that Afrikaans-speaking coloured kids in
the rural Western Cape are in dire need for educational programmes in
Afrikaans. <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></font></span></div></div> <div><span><i><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-style: italic;">
<a href="http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/praesa/OPaper14.PDF" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">The Rise and Possible Demise of Afrikaans as a Public Language</span></font></a>
- .....</span></font></i></span></div> <div><span><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></font></span></div> <h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span><b><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">...Why only English? It is not a secret that the government, in its attempt to compete globally, is driving towards a
</span></font></b></span></h2><div class="Ih2E3d"> <h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><b><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">single
public language. It was widely believed that mother tongue education is
not that essential but the continuous drop in school pass rates since
1994, has prompted educationists to review the need for mother tongue
education beyond primary education. <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></font></b></span></h2></div> <div><span>
<b><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><span> </span></span></font></b></span><span><font color="black" size="2"> </font></span><span><b><font color="black" size="2">
<span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: black;" lang="FR">Regards,</span></font></b></span> </div> <h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><b><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; color: black;" lang="FR">
Elsie Zinsser</span></font> </b></span><br></h2> <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">This
is all a bit ironic, when I think back to the riots of 1976. They were
sparked by the use of Afrikaans and English, rather than English
exclusively, as education languages in non-white schools.</div><font color="#888888"> <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </div> <div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Paul Finlow-Bates</div></font></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">
<span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Maria Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Language politics"
</span><br><span class="HcCDpe"><br>
</span><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Hi all,<br><br>Bryan, I absolutely agree,
or as here in South Africa, when political consideration
takes precedence and public funds (and grants, such as coming from the
Dutch, US or Danish governments) are misused to bolster the party
politics of a functionally one party state, and to the detriment of
especially children in dire need for educational resources in their own
languages. <br><br>It is not widely known that Afrikaans is the third largest mother tongue in South Africa after Zulu and Xhosa. <br><br>The
majority of Afrikaans speakers are not white. Yet, in courts and in the
public service, when one demands to be served, heard or prosecuted in
one's mother tongue, officials see this as a hassle and are not helpful
or keen to arrange for translators. <br><br>Because one demands
Afrikaans, you are immediately seen as racist (if you are 'white') or a
pushover (if you are 'coloured' of 'black') and therefore probably
guilty as charged. <br><br>In official documentation (as from the
SA National Library bibliography service), Afrikaans is not considered
an African language and I quote: <br>"Language of publication (if in a
language other than English or Afrikaans, eg. an African language:".
When I pointed it out to the librarian that Afrikaans is an African
language, I got guffaws. <br><br>Elsie Zinsser<br><br> >>Everyone
needs to encourage these groups to continue using their languages.
'Public' media cannot be given a free pass when they stoop to the
level of their commercial competition.</font><br>
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