Afrikaans became a hot topic again after the Constitutional Court last week ruled in favour of AfriForum in the case for the retention of Afrikaans as a primary language of instruction at the University of South Africa (Unisa).
Nzimande said the DA has forever been narrowly preoccupied with Afrikaans only, with very little to say about the important matter of the development of the nine other official languages that had been suppressed and deliberately underdeveloped under colonialism and apartheid.
He said he recognised Afrikaans as one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, but added that he could not allow it to be used as a “means of exclusion and oppression, nor as a means to pursue a narrow and racist Afrikaner nationalist agenda, as was the case under apartheid”.
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