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<blockquote data-quote="User1245" data-source="post: 940108" data-attributes="member: 40986"><p>The article is misleading. Just look at the types of tweets were embedded in the article, sets the tone for the rest of it. Unfortunate that these days everything seems to have a spin on it. </p><p></p><p>I just checked on Wikipedia and the University of Pretoria has been bilingual since 1994 which sounds about right.</p><p></p><p>The article misleads in the what an "official language" means. This doesn't not mean that Afrikaans is the forced medium. Back in 2007 when I was looking at studying at UP all courses were English. Yes it has an Afrikaans flavour but I remember all buildings having both English and Afrikaans signs. </p><p>Just like SA has 11 official languages does not mean that everything is labeled in all of these languages.</p><p>I'm not surprised it's confusing to foreigners who are used to a homogeneous or even distribution of language in a country. </p><p></p><p>BTW nobody is saying you can't express an opinion about South Africa but it seems (to me at least) that you start from a position of skepticism with South Africans on this forum. It seems that you have your opinion cemented before you speak to people from the country. SA has its complexities which can be misrepresented. </p><p></p><p>One thing that is constant, like everywhere else, is that all the politicians are on power trip. Past and present. </p><p>The ANC has demonstrated that it's morally corrupt pre- and post-1994 and ANY program it implements should be met with skepticism. Especially when it limits the freedom of others, doubly so when it's a minority group. The ANC ruling for the past 2 and a half decades is starting to get into dictatorship territory and its starting to show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="User1245, post: 940108, member: 40986"] The article is misleading. Just look at the types of tweets were embedded in the article, sets the tone for the rest of it. Unfortunate that these days everything seems to have a spin on it. I just checked on Wikipedia and the University of Pretoria has been bilingual since 1994 which sounds about right. The article misleads in the what an "official language" means. This doesn't not mean that Afrikaans is the forced medium. Back in 2007 when I was looking at studying at UP all courses were English. Yes it has an Afrikaans flavour but I remember all buildings having both English and Afrikaans signs. Just like SA has 11 official languages does not mean that everything is labeled in all of these languages. I'm not surprised it's confusing to foreigners who are used to a homogeneous or even distribution of language in a country. BTW nobody is saying you can't express an opinion about South Africa but it seems (to me at least) that you start from a position of skepticism with South Africans on this forum. It seems that you have your opinion cemented before you speak to people from the country. SA has its complexities which can be misrepresented. One thing that is constant, like everywhere else, is that all the politicians are on power trip. Past and present. The ANC has demonstrated that it's morally corrupt pre- and post-1994 and ANY program it implements should be met with skepticism. Especially when it limits the freedom of others, doubly so when it's a minority group. The ANC ruling for the past 2 and a half decades is starting to get into dictatorship territory and its starting to show. [/QUOTE]
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