Dangers that lurk in monolingualism lost in clamour over Afrikaans
30 November 2015 - 02:13
In this season of protest, when vestiges of apartheid are being challenged on campuses across the country, Afrikaans has come to assume the symbolic status at Stellenbosch University that was held by the Cecil John Rhodes statue at the University of Cape Town earlier this year. The student movement, the university management and a sizeable portion of academics seem to concur: for the sake of transformation at Stellenbosch University, Afrikaans must fall.
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