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What one university’s 30-year transformation reveals about Afrikaans and language planning in South Africa

By Lloyd Hill, Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English.

Stellenbosch University, about 50km from Cape Town, is the oldest historically Afrikaans university. Over the past three decades English has gradually replaced Afrikaans in the core functions of teaching and research.

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