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Title: Daily Maverick

Place: South Africa

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Author: Dr Lloyd Hill

Published: December 4, 2019

Updated: December 2, 2020

Source: Daily Maverick - https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article

Copyright: Dr Lloyd Hill, Daily Maverick

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Living in Stellenbosch, I am sensitive to the emotions that accompany the decline of Afrikaans as a high-level cultural medium. This constitutes an obvious cultural ‘cost’ for those who were previously able to use their ‘mother tongue’ at this level. Two recent Constitutional Court cases have qualified the constitutional right to “language choice” at public educational institutions and concluded a three-year period of language policy litigation at historically Afrikaans universities. On 10 October 2019, the Constitutional Court released a unanimous judgement, which found that Stellenbosch University’s 2016 language policy was “constitutionally justified”. The court dismissed the case presented by an Afrikaans interest group called Gelyke Kanse (Equal Opportunities), which had sought to appeal against an earlier judgement by the Cape High Court.

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