South Africa: Learning English

[Francis Hult]

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Learning English
Friday November 13th 2009

A leading Afrikaner historian rails against a policy he says is
driving language out of South Africa's universities but supports say
is making higher education more accessible, reports David Beresford

An increasingly bitter debate is developing in South Africa over
language policy at the country's universities - notably Stellenbosch,
the Alma mater of almost all cabinet ministers, prime ministers and
presidents during the apartheid era. The cudgels have now been taken
up on behalf of Afrikaans by one of the country's best-known
historians, Professor Hermann Giliomee. He claims that a policy to
teach some courses in Afrikaans and English at Stellenbosch, backed by
a $3.7m teaching and language development programme, heralds the death
of Afrikaans and will undermine Stellenbosch's status as a
"predominantly Afrikaans ­university".

Full story:
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1344&catID=18


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