Language Policy in Education in South Africa

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In “The Super Afrikaners” by Ivor Wilkins and Hans Strydom it states” Under the British Regime, Afrikaans became a despised language. Children were allowed to speak it only three hours a week at school, otherwise they had to carry a placard proclaiming “I am a donkey, I spoke Dutch” ” (Wilkins I, Strydom, H; 1978, page 38) With “English [as] the language of the economy” (Wilkins I, Strydom, H; 1978, page 38) this caused the Afrikaner to feel segregated and with the lack of education drive and the Athenaeum having English religion lessons (causing a fear of an establishment of an English Church and the English way of life becoming an ideology) caused the Afrikaner community to resist and in 1830 “Die Suid Afrikaan” (An Afrikaans newspaper) was published...
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This caused controversy between the Afrikaners and English colonial powers and finally the Afrikaners were denied self government for two decades. The Afrikaners also felt their identity being threatened with the expansion of the British colony. This caused them to become an even tighter community with their main aim being the desire to protect the purity of their culture and race and their solution to the impounding English/ British culture was to embark on what is now known as “The Great Trek” between 1830 and 1840...
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