Critical steep to promoting African languages is ensuring it’s offered in all schools - ANC

[Jopie Fourie]

Ensuring that African languages are offered in all schools is a critical step toward actively promoting it, the ANC said on Heritage Day.

“Apartheid and colonialism degraded and marginalised African languages. In this regard, we support President Cyril Ramaphosa when he says, ‘There is no language in this country that is superior to another ... There is no language we can say belongs to the past and must stay there ... Every single language spoken in this country has equal value and equal worth’,” party spokesperson Pule Mabe said in a statement.

“All South Africans must be encouraged by President Ramaphosa's commitment that by the end of next year, we are aiming to ensure that all of South Africa’s 23 000 public schools offer an African language. This is a very progressive and revolutionary intervention.”

Heritage Day 2019 was observed under the theme “Celebrating South Africa’s literacy classics in the year of indigenous languages”, Mabe said.

“The United Nations General Assembly declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. South Africa’s Constitution guarantees freedom of linguistic, cultural and religious association. The ANC believes that this is critical for nation-building and social cohesion.”

Mabe said the party agreed with Ramaphosa that preserving SA’s heritage involved the “restoration of land to the landless”.

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Ensuring that African languages are offered in all schools is a critical step toward actively promoting it, the ANC said on Heritage Day.

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[Jopie Fourie]

“All South Africans must be encouraged by President Ramaphosa's commitment that by the end of next year, we are aiming to ensure that all of South Africa’s 23 000 public schools offer an African language. This is a very progressive and revolutionary intervention.”

Racist lying ANC! We have been having it in Apartheid years, when the schooling system worked. We were forced to take an African language from Standard 6 onwards, back in the 1970's to 1980's. Nothing revolutionary! It has been done long before.

Mabe said the party agreed with Ramaphosa that preserving SA’s heritage involved the “restoration of land to the landless”.

Lol!

 

[Currantly]

we are aiming to ensure that all of South Africa’s 23 000 public schools offer an African language

I'm going to hazard a guess that Afrikaans isn't considered an African language for that aim.

 

[Johnatan56]

I'm going to hazard a guess that Afrikaans isn't considered an African language for that aim.

For my highschool Afrikaans was considered "African" enough, lol, I would have dropped it if I could though, I'm terrible at languages and if no one around me speaks it, I never use it and basically just get a nice mark added to lower my average.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

I'm going to hazard a guess that Afrikaans isn't considered an African language for that aim.

I would suspect that Afrikaans was not included in any speech today. It is not part of the 10 official languages of this country and the ANC is fighting hard to get rid of it.

 

[REAList_1]

So the cadres are going to need an additional 24000 (if one per school is enough) teachers to teach this.
As it is there are not enough teachers to do the job properly.
And hopefully the languages should have been passed on a college level as part of the teaching diploma.
Good luck with all of this...

 

[Scooby_Doo]

Steep? Do you mean step?

 

[ForceFate]

I'm going to hazard a guess that Afrikaans isn't considered an African language for that aim.

I would suspect that Afrikaans was not included in any speech today. It is not part of the 10 official languages of this country and the ANC is fighting hard to get rid of it.

Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of Heritage Day 2019, Mxolisi Dicky Jacobs Stadium, Upington

Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of Heritage Day 2019, Mxolisi Dicky Jacobs Stadium, Upington | The Presidency

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Ahuna luambo fhano Afrika Tshipembe lune lwa vha lwa ndeme u fhira dzinwe nyambo.

There is no language we can say belongs to the past and must stay there.

Daar is geen taal in ons land wat ons kan sê is ‘n taal uit ons verlede en wat in ons gelede gelaat moet word nie.

Vandag omhels en beoefen ons alle tale wat bydra tot die diversiteit van ons nasie.

 

[Medres]

Steep? Do you mean step?

News 24 at its best as per usual