{"id":39971,"date":"2022-11-09T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/afrikaans-speakers-cannot-be-denied-afriforum-slams-khampepes-stellenbosch-university-racism-report"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:28:56","slug":"afrikaans-speakers-cannot-be-denied-afriforum-slams-khampepes-stellenbosch-university-racism-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/afrikaans-speakers-cannot-be-denied-afriforum-slams-khampepes-stellenbosch-university-racism-report","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Afrikaans speakers cannot be denied&#8217;: AfriForum slams Khampepe&#8217;s Stellenbosch University racism report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Lobby group AfriForum has slammed Constitutional Court Judge Sisi Khampepe&#8217;s report into alleged racism at Stellenbosch University.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the findings in Khampepe&#8217;s 184-page report recommended that the university should consider reviewing and revising its language policy to remove the possibility of language exclusion through the preference for Afrikaans.<\/p>\n<p>AfriForum said it was concerned the use of a language could be held responsible for various behavioural problems and perceptions on campus.<\/p>\n<p>It stated the language rights of Afrikaans speakers could not be denied in reaction to the misconduct of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Khampepe&#8217;s report followed an incident in May when former student Theuns du Toit was filmed urinating on first-year student Babalo Ndwayana&#8217;s desk and belongings at their Huis Marais residence.<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit was later found guilty of contravening the university&#8217;s rules and expelled.<\/p>\n<p>Khampepe said her findings on the university&#8217;s language policy should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the university&#8217;s commitment to multilingualism cannot be faulted in theory, the reality is that the historical preferences for Afrikaans endure at the university despite the language policy&#8217;s inclusion of English and isiXhosa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moreover, complaints of racialised exclusion through the Afrikaans language came up repeatedly,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Khampepe added students and staff members complained there was a cultural preference for Afrikaans, which made many black university staff and students feel unwelcome and excluded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It also divides communication and socialising along racial lines,&#8221; the report found.<\/p>\n<p>AfriForum&#8217;s head of cultural affairs, Alana Bailey, said it was particularly alarming the use of a language could be held responsible for various behavioural problems and perceptions on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Much is made of the feeling of exclusion experienced by non-Afrikaans-speaking students and staff even when the language is used in informal conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Note that Stellenbosch is one of only two out of more than 30 campuses of public universities in the country where Afrikaans still plays a significant role as a language of instruction,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey added Afrikaans-speaking students did not have alternative public institutions that would accommodate them when they were excluded based on their language.<\/p>\n<p>She said the report&#8217;s recommendations on the language were &#8220;hazy&#8221;, starting with the statement that English was the preferred language at the university to promote inclusivity.<\/p>\n<p>Khampepe said she was dubious about whether the current language policy benefitted the university as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>She added the university should consider reviewing its language policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be remiss of me not to caution the university that this process of review must pay careful attention to the negative duty on it, as a public university, to not deprive Afrikaans-speaking students of their enjoyment of the right to study in their preferred language without appropriate justification,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In March last year, News24 reported the university&#8217;s senate accepted a recommendation from its academic planning committee that it deviated from the faculty&#8217;s language implementation plans for the first semester of this year.<\/p>\n<p>This allowed lecturers to only make new learning material available in English and not in Afrikaans, as stipulated in the university&#8217;s current language policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The term &#8216;appropriate justification&#8217; is so vague that any motivation can be used to summarily deprive Afrikaans students of their right to mother-language education &#8211; contrary to what is guaranteed in the Constitution,&#8221; Bailey said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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