South Africa education law: Afrikaans-speaking groups fear erosion of language
South Africa education law: Afrikaans-speaking groups fear erosion of language
A new education law in South Africa is dividing opinions in a country with a complex racial history.
Afrikaans-speaking groups say sections of the new law will erode their language and culture.
The government says the measures will make education accessible to more children.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Centurion.
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Yess! South Africa Eliminate Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, people can use it in other ways like the other native languages Zulu, Xhosa etc, but in 2024 their is no reason why Math or English should be taught using Afrikaans.
This is such a weird narrative.
As if South Africa was never a British colony and English is not the language of the colonizers in South Africa.
As if English is a native language in South Africa.
And as such, idiots keep on creating idiotic narratives.
Afrikaans is not spoken in any other country. It is, in fact the only indigenous language still taught in schools in South Africa. But the narrative makes you think it is a foreign language forced onto South Africans, when the truth is that English is the foreign language. Now I understand why the British forced the implimentation of the apartheid laws and refused to allow South Africans to choose their own borders. It is starting to make more and more sense…
The idiots are literally recolonializing South Africa and calling it freedom. What a strange world…Centralized control is colonialization: it is a top down system…
Sensationalism given how that's now what the law is doing lol
If only your explanation is correct. ANC is known to eradicate Afrikaans as a language of education where ever they can.
This is a slap in the face of South Africa's most victimised community: the Cape Coloured community. They constitute the largest segment of Afrikaans speakers, and they are despised by the Black ethnic communities who hide behind the "legacy of apartheid" instituted by white Afrikaaners. The Coloureds should not have to endure more descrimination from the Black majority after having suffered under apartheid themselves. This is proof that racism and hatred come in many forms.
Langyèt manman w Afrikaans
It's an African country where all African people of colour are supposed to flourish. Just imagine if Africa was never colonized and South Africans were all taught English fairly with Sotho, Zulu, Xhosa etc. and all people regardless of race had the same educational opportunities, this country would've been different with no apartheid. Maybe this land would've been successful beyond our imaginations and we would've all had a fair playing field…
i dont see no dutch german or any white like here why do they accept to continue clonizer or slaving system while they still free
only the origin african language should be learned if they liked or not
if they are instill inforced to learn the clonizer language they are not free for their country yet
Well Afrikaans is largely useless anyways😂
The language of oppression is coming to a end huh?
I am parent who is frustrated of doing Afrikaans HOMEWORK. thank you BELA Act, now we are tasting freedom.
I don’t listen to people who have a national iq of 68
All rural schools receive Bantu education as they are taught in their mother tongue. I wonder how that poor child will find work based upon that???? No they don’t, thats why we have a huge unemployment rate. Shame
It is a complicated scenario as South Africa has many different languages. One needs to take into consideration that is one want to yet into colleges or Universities when it comes to business mostly conducted in ENGLISH. One can speak their own home language yet to use this in schools one would have to open schools who teach in these different languages all over South Africa, or employ teachers who can converse in these different languages. A child who speaks Xhosa may want to go to an English speaking school. It would be their choice. One has to look at how will it benefit them in the business sector and workplaceand dealing with clients or customers here and abroad with all these different languages which will cause much confusion. One would constantly need hundreds of translators.
You cannot force “ All for one, and one for all in South Africa” as there are to many languages in our country.
That is why a Federal state may be the answer for South Africa. Regions can then choose their language in schools. There are 12 official languages in South Africa and the majority are region based.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂 they are lucky that it is only Afrikaans and not Land 😅
People don't read maan.
Afrikaans people build the schools. Why don't they build their own schools and then they can teach the children in their own language.
The onky people that see Afrikaans as the language of tye oppressor are those that don't speak it in their everyday lives.
This attitude is prevalent in majority Black provinces like Gauteng in particular.
In majority Coloured provinces like Western Cape, or Northern Cape which is 50/50, Afrikaans is spoken by the majority of residents Black, White, Coloured.
As a Black person from a Cape province, I feel like these laws originate from Gauteng people and they are imposing their views onto our Cape identities.
Why can't blacks build their own schools and carry on? For 30 years they couldn't build anything, but they want to infiltrate the functioning schools they never built. Talk about a useless fokken nasion!!
Maybe they should be held accountable for distributing HIV before playing the victim?
With the Bela Bela law…you will learn to serve satan..that's no education..it's got fuckall to do with apartheid..get over yourself and move back to Zimbabwe
Wasn't this the tipping point for Soweto Uprising
Build more schools!
These Beors are crazy. 😂😂😂😂
( ALL EUROPEANS IN SOUTH AFRICA MUST LEAVE. THIS IS A WARNING TO THEM )
This is an attack on Afrikaans schools. Period. All races are welcome in the few afrikaans schools left. All races are welcome in Afrikaans schools, but racist people who are against Afrikaans people and culture do not want this.
Majority of South Africans will benefit. You win some you lose some
The governing party has failed to build schools, which would have addressed the issue in the first place.
The government does not provide, it only takes
As a Xhosa speaking person I was taught in English, I cannot see why other cultures kids cannot do the same. Surely they can’t be that dom!
Honestly it's a colonial language. A majority of us on South 🇿🇦 Africa don't like that language. Only a certain a few South African's can speak. So scrap it and put it in the shelves.
It'll remain in the archives
lol you diverse ones move to the functioning Afrikaans spaces, take it over and destroy it then move on to the next.. like a virus.. you don’t want “equality” you want revenge cause you lot are hopeless.. your black government can just build you a black school with all the Afrikaner taxes that have been paid
Seems fair to me
There is so many Afrikaans speaking children and people why is everything always about apartheid that died 30 years ago it's time to stop with this we don't intervene with your culture so leave ours alone
Whats sad is that the majority of Afrikaans speakers are NOT White
Why not just teach in english across all schools? Then no one will have a reason to complain.
@Al Jazeera stop with your bullsh*t reporting
The racists are going wild. 😂
1:24 only bunch of Colonisers
South Africa loosing its History by eroding its native Language.
Make South Africa Native Again
Make South Africa Great Again
Who ever does the writing for you guys when it comes to south africa is either stupid or a white south africa .all your guys report are always anti black if you not calling us xenophobic ironically a term yalll hardly use for European and asian countries when they have situation with the likes of immigrants from Nigeria or other countries.maybe the Israeli are a fraction right about you
I speak fifteen languages.
Why are we restricting anybody's choice of whatever language they prefer ?
Let the parents decide what language their kids need to be taught in. Let the community which surrounds that particular school be the deciding factor. Us who live in Afrikaans communities where we speak Afrikaans almost 98% of the day, why should government decide for us the medium of instruction? In our community, we certainly want our kids to be taught in our mother tongue, Afrikaans as it has always been. Don't come and decide for us, we are at peace.
It's dutch aka a european language not an African one.
This country keep getting back each year less the white people the more poor this country keep getting I mean look at Uganda when idi Amin a black man kicked all the Indians out of country the whole country fall apart and later begged for them to come back 😂
Why do you "want to penetrate Afrikaans schools?" Build your own. You just gave your real motive away. Julle is so opdringerig! Dis omdat julle nie dit kan vat dat ander goed regkom sonder julle nie! Why push blacks into a school and force that school to cater to those few speakers who CHOOSE to go there??!! Make your own school or go to a school whose primary language medium isn't Afrikaans! Can you hear the LIES??? He said it clearly for everyone to hear! They don't want to help learners, they want to strip them of their unique Afrikaans identity.
Build your own facilities
So instead of building new schools and creating more jobs and opportunities. They would rather just piggy back off of the work of the afrikaans man just like they have for the last 30 odd years… this makes me sick; when they fail here too they will then blame the afrikaaner again somehow