AfriForum took Unisa to court after the institution adopted a language policy that phased out teaching and learning in Afrikaans five years ago. Unisa approached the Constitutional Court after the ...

Pretoria - While the EFF has rejected the Constitutional Court judgment to reinstate Afrikaans as a learning and teaching medium at Unisa, the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) welcomed and supported ...

There were mixed opinions and feelings by citizens and experts about the place of Afrikaans in society. In recent years the language has come under fire by various departments and political parties.

Pierre de Vos teaches Constitutional law at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, where he is head of the Department of Public Law. He writes a blog, entitled 'Constitutionally Speaking', in which ...

The Dutch word for “soon” is “straks”. In Afrikaans, “straks” became “maybe”. Obviously, one can have quite a bit of fun speculating on the reasons for this linguistic divergence. “T.I.A.”, some of my ...

In efforts to contain institutional conflict at the University of Pretoria (UP) stemming from the campaigns #AfrikaansMustFall and #AfrikaansSalBly, the offer of a particular kind of multilingualism – ...

South Africa's University of Stellenbosch has stopped teaching in Afrikaans after students protested that it was a language they identify with apartheid. The elite institution announced it will use ...

Oxford is a magical place over Christmas. Fairy lights twinkle in every window. Children, wearing mittens, frolic down Cornmarket, whilst their parents, hot toddys in hand, watch on with beaming ...

Anne Heffernan's position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She observed and participated in the October-November 2015 FeesMustFall protests. This month forty years ago, thousands of ...