Today, we made history! We, as students, fought for our rights to be educated in our home language, Afrikaans and to have English and Tswana, as interpretation services.
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| Merieke and I at the march Second poster translation "Media stoking anger, what about my degree?" |
Our university has been receiving bad advertising from newspapers and television since the beginning of the year, making false accusations of the university endorsing a Nazi-culture, which is rubbish!
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Now, here is the defense of the students and the university:
Since our country became a democracy in 1994, we had 11 official languages. Talk about a rich culture and traditions of a country! I absolutely love it! There are so many types of people here and each and everyone is individual. We all have different backgrounds and we are a Rainbow Nation. One of our rights in this Rainbow Nation, is that we have the right to be educated in our home language.
Why not go to another university to receive education in your home language?
Because we are the last Afrikaans university in South-Africa. All English and Tswana students have translators in EACH and EVERY class.
There are so many English universities, who provide interpretation services for all languages of South-Africa, except for Afrikaans.
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| Lizanne, me and Merieke |
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| Thousands of students marching! |
How do you feel about this? Please share your views.
1 comment:
Sorry to say English is a much better medium and you will have to work in English. Get your English sorted and it open doors overseas too.
Many other things to do in Afrikaans and Afrikaans will be only stronger for these very reason.
ENGLISH!
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