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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 939003" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>I made it clear I'm not questioning Afrikaans right to exist, I'm questioning why it take a quarter century after apartheid for language barriers to education to be removed for the third and fourth ranked Unis in South Africa. </p><p></p><p>Teaching only in Afrikaans in a national institution is as daft as if your employer decided to use only Xhosa - both would speak to a reluctance to get on board with reconciliation. I'm glad that enlightend persons have ensured that neither is the case. I suppose if someone wasn't happy working in a Xhosa only environment they could just move a couple of hundred of kilometres to Durban and get a lower paid job (or one that doesn't match their skills so well) there. Doesn't sound appealing, does it? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>I'm not a massive fan of the spread of English, but its prevalence is here to stay and in a country with the linguistic diversity of South Africa it is the obvious choice for institutions and businesses aspiring to have a national reach; af least to have it as an option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 939003, member: 74121"] I made it clear I'm not questioning Afrikaans right to exist, I'm questioning why it take a quarter century after apartheid for language barriers to education to be removed for the third and fourth ranked Unis in South Africa. Teaching only in Afrikaans in a national institution is as daft as if your employer decided to use only Xhosa - both would speak to a reluctance to get on board with reconciliation. I'm glad that enlightend persons have ensured that neither is the case. I suppose if someone wasn't happy working in a Xhosa only environment they could just move a couple of hundred of kilometres to Durban and get a lower paid job (or one that doesn't match their skills so well) there. Doesn't sound appealing, does it? :p I'm not a massive fan of the spread of English, but its prevalence is here to stay and in a country with the linguistic diversity of South Africa it is the obvious choice for institutions and businesses aspiring to have a national reach; af least to have it as an option. [/QUOTE]
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