Afrikaans at Unisa Latest: Con Court ruling expected
Unisa earlier appealed a court ruling in favour of Afriforum that it must advertise the availability of certain courses in Afrikaans.
AfriForum’s case against the monolingual English language policy of the University of South Africa (Unisa) is expected to be heard virtually by the Constitutional Court on Thursday.
This follows a ruling in the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2020 in favour of AfriForum, which found that Unisa’s language policy had not been adopted and implemented in line with the requirements of the constitution.
IOL reported at the time that President of the SCA Judge Mandisa Maya had noted in his digital ruling that while the rationale for the new language policy – that the demand for Afrikaans was decreasing – could not be disputed, there was still a significant number of students who still wanted it.
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the case in which AfriForum is promoting Afrikaans as a language of tuition against the monolingual English language policy of the University of South Africa (Unisa).
The court heard the case virtually on Thursday 20 May after the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on 30 June 2020 in favour of AfriForum’s argument that this policy is illegal and unconstitutional.
In response to Unisa’s arguments against the Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling, AfriForum’s legal team told the court that Unisa’s allegations about a decrease in students’ demand for Afrikaans tuition could not be proved with indisputable numbers and that university management also could not indicate how other languages had been promoted as a result of the abolition of Afrikaans tuition since the implementation of the policy in 2017.
AfriForum saddened by fire damage in Cape Town and calls for rebuilding
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AfriForum has taken note with shock and regret of the fire damage caused in Cape Town since yesterday and of the firefighters that have been injured while performing their duties.
AfriForum expressed sympathy to all those who have lost property and lauded those who are doing everything possible to bring the fires under control. It hopes that all responsible for this disaster will be found and held accountable for the damage caused, also to serve as a deterrent to others. Furthermore, AfriForum trusts that lessons will be learnt from the tragedy in order to prevent similar dis