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Klerk, Hester de (2016)

The Last Standing Ivory Tower: Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

Language policy has always been a topic of heated debate in South Africa. In recent months, however, disputes with regards to such specific policy have intensified as the nation witnesses numerous, sometimes even violent, student protests at particular universities across the land. Target universities, such as Stellenbosch University, are those higher education institutions which still practise a bilingual medium of instruction by teaching in both Afrikaans and English. The aforementioned debate is, however, mostly surrounded around the former language rather than the latter. Indeed, the protesters have one specific goal; to remove Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at the few varsities which wholeheartedly try to preserve the academic status of the language.

Afrikaans

South Africa

Language

Tertiary Education

Stellenbosch University

Author

Klerk, Hester de

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Goede, M.J. de

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en