[lg policy] Academic hypocrisy in excluding Afrikaans – Dr Theuns Eloff 1st February 2019 by Chris Bateman CAPE TOWN — We have here what seems like a chicken and egg debate, though the author would profoundly disagree, given his contention there’s been deliberate, incremental side-lining of Afrikaans at the Pretoria University campus. Dr Eloff, Executive Director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, argues that UP’s introduction of an “English-only” tuition policy drove Afrikaans-speaking students away to the point where they consisted of just 18% of students. That this dramatically dwindled percentage is now cited by UP to justify what he says is an unconstitutional policy, is pure duplicity, he says. It’s insane political correctness, the very opposite of “facilitating social cohesion,” and “creating inclusivity,” he adds. – Chris Bateman By Theuns Eloff The University of Pretoria (UP) successfully won a court challenge against its “English only” language policy in Dece

[Harold Schiffman]

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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