Within the domain of higher education, the decline of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction comes on the back of a more fundamental shift: The gradual erasure of the longstanding white institutional ...

But high-level English, Afrikaans and English-Afrikaans bilingualism are cultural capital, or the correlates of relative privilege. Recent critics of the Constitutional Court judgments have tended to ...

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The debate on Afrikaans in universities that ended in the Constitutional Court last week, was really about power. It was about a group that had lost political power now trying to reassert its identity ...

Umalusi — the quality assurance in education and training body — has raised concerns that some provinces have a shortage of Afrikaans markers. This was revealed by Mafu Rakometsi, Umalusi’s chief ...

The University of Pretoria is to phase out Afrikaans as the official medium of instruction at all its campuses and residences. The university will from now only use English as the primary language of ...

Gauteng MEC for education Panyaza Lesufi has slammed an Afrikaans university that is set to open late next year. Taking to social media on Monday, Lesufi said that a "race-based institution" would ...

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Afrikaans survived South Africa’s transition from apartheid, but lost the privileges of power. Will it cope with the challenges of a changing world? Yet 25 years on from the negotiated settlement that ...