According to “Rapport” of 30 November 2014, the Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, has threatened to withdraw the registration of the private university, Akademia, if its language of tuition remains exclusively Afrikaans.
Universal Children’s Day is a day devoted to the promotion and protection of children’s rights.
16 November is the United Nations’ International Day for Tolerance.
International Mother Language Day (IMLD) – on 21 February each year – celebrates language diversity, variety and multilingualism throughout the world.
In a recent article (abridged in the Cape Times, 20 January 2014) Professor Jane Duncan pointed to the fact that although socialist ideas are widely espoused by the masses there is little reference to socialism in most of our media. She says that objective viewers “would probably conclude that socialism was consigned to the dustbin of politically bankrupt ideas long ago.”
Remarks made by Prof Jonathan Jansen – Rector of the University of the Free State – in the Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture to the English Academy of South Africa on 18 September, have caused a furore in Afrikaans cultural and educational circles. They have been widely interpreted as a call for English-only education and as a claim that “Afrikaans-exclusive or even Afrikaans-dominant white schools and universities represent a serious threat to race relations in South Africa”.
SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT F W DE KLERK TO THE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS, JOHANNESBURG, 6 JUNE 2006 THE ROLE OF BUSINESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY
SPEECH BY FORMER PRESIDENT FW DE KLERK TO THE AFRIKANERBOND 26 OCTOBER 2005 CALL FOR A NEW ORGANISATION TO PRESENT A COMMON
OPENING STATEMENT BY F W DE KLERK IN HIS DEBATE WITH TOKYO SEXWALE CAPE TOWN, 24 OCTOBER 2005 The New South Africa can
