AfriForum wins court battle over UFS language policy

21 July 2016 - 13:30 By TMG Digital

AfriForum won a legal challenge in court on Thursday to stop the University of the Free State (UFS) from lecturing students mostly in English from 2017. Eyewitness News reported on Thursday that the lobby group took the university to the High Court in Bloemfontein‚ arguing that its new language policy was unconstitutional.‘Act of pure evil’ caught on camera as Manenberg children torture, kill dogAfter weeks of student unrest‚ the UFS council reached a unanimous decision in March to make English the primary medium of instruction‚ Business Day reported earlier this year.The council said English would be used at undergraduate and postgraduate level at all three campuses."Afrikaans has a right to survive. This ... is about the supremacy of the Constitution‚" Johan du Toit SC‚ representing AfriForum‚ argued earlier‚ during the case at the High Court. – TMG Digital..

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