Afrikaners themselves had to fight to have their language recognised as such, rather than as a dialect of Dutch
Given his performance in the R22 million flag saga, it is not surprising that Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has been looking for ways to justify his existence. Now, apparently, he wants the Afrikaans language monument in Paarl to be renamed “in the interests of inclusivity”. Quite how people other than Afrikaners would want to celebrate a language which is not their own was not explained by the minister.
Now, apparently, he wants the Afrikaans language monument in Paarl to be renamed “in the interests of inclusivity”. Interestingly, as Freedom Front Plus MP Dr Wynand Boshoff points out on our pages today, a previous endeavour by parliament to stop subsidies to the monument was turned aside when MPs visited the monument and were informed that the various pillars of the monument symbolise the different sources from which Afrikaans originated: European languages, various African languages, including Khoisan, and its Eastern roots.
So it is understandable that there is pressure to move away from it, especially at university level, where it is systematically being replaced by English as the language of instruction. In broad terms, that is no bad thing, given that English is the global language of commerce, trade and technology.
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