AfriForum took Unisa to court after the institution adopted a language policy that phased out teaching and learning in Afrikaans five years ago. Unisa approached the Constitutional Court after the ...
Pierre de Vos teaches Constitutional law at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, where he is head of the Department of Public Law. He writes a blog, entitled 'Constitutionally Speaking', in which ...
In efforts to contain institutional conflict at the University of Pretoria (UP) stemming from the campaigns #AfrikaansMustFall and #AfrikaansSalBly, the offer of a particular kind of multilingualism – ...
An American woman's adorable video learning Afrikaans sayings from her South African husband has gone viral, showcasing their ...
The Dutch word for “soon” is “straks”. In Afrikaans, “straks” became “maybe”. Obviously, one can have quite a bit of fun speculating on the reasons for this linguistic divergence. “T.I.A.”, some of my ...
South Africa's University of Stellenbosch has stopped teaching in Afrikaans after students protested that it was a language they identify with apartheid. The elite institution announced it will use ...
T he Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has rubbished claims that Afrikaans schools are being singled out following its ...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has scored an important initial victory in our quest for transparency and justice regarding the events that took place during the court case over the abolition of ...
Oxford is a magical place over Christmas. Fairy lights twinkle in every window. Children, wearing mittens, frolic down Cornmarket, whilst their parents, hot toddys in hand, watch on with beaming ...
Anne Heffernan's position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She observed and participated in the October-November 2015 FeesMustFall protests. This month forty years ago, thousands of ...
I know. This is totally off topic to the matter at hand. Millions of South African students are currently out of school (except the ones with a little more money). This is all due to a pandemic that ...