Fighting for survival of Afrikaans

Fighting for survival of Afrikaans

Published in: From SA With Love News Date: 01 March 2007 Category: Your Taste of Home Issue No: 209 The Afrikaans language was being eroded in many spheres of society, former President FW de Klerk said. ‘I find the systematic erosion of the rights and claims of Afrikaans, as established in the Constitution, unacceptable,’ he added. Speaking at the University of Pretoria’s Afrikaans language conference, De Klerk said that language was one of the fundamental rights on which consensus had been reached during negotiations to end apartheid. Die Burger reports that he believed that not only were some of the provisions of the Constitution often circumvented today, but the spirit in which they had been negotiated was also not being honoured. Full report in Die Burger