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<blockquote data-quote="User1245" data-source="post: 938819" data-attributes="member: 40986"><p>Afrikaans (initially Dutch) has been in South Africa for close to 400 years and has a deep history of literacy specific to South Africa, so that might be the motivation... English is a late comer to the party. Afrikaans is allowed to exist if we're going to call South Africa a multicultural society.</p><p></p><p>As Heineken points out English is not everybody's default favourite choice. Neither blacks or whites in South Africa are close to being homogeneous groups, especially when it comes to language.</p><p></p><p>A Sotho who wants to learn in English just needs to move a few hundred kilometres to study in Durban (very English part of South Africa) but typically won't because of the Zulus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="User1245, post: 938819, member: 40986"] Afrikaans (initially Dutch) has been in South Africa for close to 400 years and has a deep history of literacy specific to South Africa, so that might be the motivation... English is a late comer to the party. Afrikaans is allowed to exist if we're going to call South Africa a multicultural society. As Heineken points out English is not everybody's default favourite choice. Neither blacks or whites in South Africa are close to being homogeneous groups, especially when it comes to language. A Sotho who wants to learn in English just needs to move a few hundred kilometres to study in Durban (very English part of South Africa) but typically won't because of the Zulus. [/QUOTE]
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