[lg policy] AfriForum ready to tackle UNISA's language policy

[Harold Schiffman]

AfriForum ready to tackle UNISA's language policy
Alana Bailey |
21 September 2016
Organisation says High Court ruling does not stop implementation but they
will take on university management itself over policy

*AfriForum ready to tackle Unisa’s language policy, even if court ruling
doesn’t stop implementation*

*21 September 2016*

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.

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.

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.

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.”

“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.

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/afriforum-ready-to-tackle-unisas-language-policy


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