Lobby group AfriForum has welcomed the ruling of the Supreme Court of Appeal in favour of AfriForum’s case for the preservation of Afrikaans as a fully-fledged language of education at the University of South Africa (Unisa).
Afriforum’s head of cultural affairs Alana Bailey says the ruling is an enormous victory for Afrikaans, Afrikaans students and also for language rights in the country.
The Court found that Unisa’s current language policy, which provides only for English as the primary language of tuition, is unconstitutional and unlawful.
Bailey says the ruling, which comes after a five-year-long battle, is of enormous interest for all Afrikaans students in the country, but also for the future of Afrikaans as a high-function language.
