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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/2019-12-02-afrikaans-and-the-university-language-debate-part-2-the-costs-of-institutional-bilingualism/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=80895&tl_period_type=3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%20Thi

Copyright: Dr Lloyd Hill, Daily Maverick

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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 division between Afrikaans universities and what used to be called English liberal universities. On the eve of South Africa’s democratic dispensation, a language deal was reached between the incumbent National Party and the aspirant African National Congress. The nine African languages that had previously received sub-national recognition within the “grand apartheid” Bantustan system were granted official status, alongside Afrikaans and English.

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