Pretoria - While the EFF has rejected the Constitutional Court judgment to reinstate Afrikaans as a learning and teaching medium at Unisa, the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) welcomed and supported ...

AfriForum took Unisa to court after the institution adopted a language policy that phased out teaching and learning in Afrikaans five years ago. Unisa approached the Constitutional Court after the ...

The website South African History Online gives a succinct account of how the June 16 1976 uprising “profoundly changed the sociopolitical landscape in South Africa. “Events that triggered the uprising ...

Pierre de Vos teaches Constitutional law at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, where he is head of the Department of Public Law. He writes a blog, entitled 'Constitutionally Speaking', in which ...

In efforts to contain institutional conflict at the University of Pretoria (UP) stemming from the campaigns #AfrikaansMustFall and #AfrikaansSalBly, the offer of a particular kind of multilingualism – ...

South Africa's University of Stellenbosch has stopped teaching in Afrikaans after students protested that it was a language they identify with apartheid. The elite institution announced it will use ...

Oxford is a magical place over Christmas. Fairy lights twinkle in every window. Children, wearing mittens, frolic down Cornmarket, whilst their parents, hot toddys in hand, watch on with beaming ...

Anne Heffernan's position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She observed and participated in the October-November 2015 FeesMustFall protests. This month forty years ago, thousands of ...

A top South African university has dropped Afrikaans as its official language in favour of English. The University of Pretoria told the BBC it needed to "transform the culture" to make it "truly South ...

Afrikaans survived South Africa’s transition from apartheid, but lost the privileges of power. Will it cope with the challenges of a changing world? Yet 25 years on from the negotiated settlement that ...