UP closes campus after student clashes

Why are Afrikaans people so sensitive? I don't see Pedi people acting like the world is ending.

Nobody is asking you to give up your language, heritage or culture.

From what I know its the university that demoted Afrikaans.

UP: From now on Afrikaans and Sepedi will only be in tutorials.

AfriForum Youth: Not so fast boet

EFF: Shut your face. Let it be an English only university then

Afrikaans people: Racists! They want to destroy us.

Pedi people: Whatevs.

I'll be sure to let my Pedi friends know they're white.

Ok so you post all the above, then post the below :confused:

The English only language policy affects the Pedi students just as it does the Afrikaans students. How is this an attack on white people? Afrikaans peeps are the only people taking this personally unlike Pedi speakers who don't mind English and in fact support a one language policy. I haven't seen one person saying "This is tribalism. Next they'll be an ethnic cleansing of all Pedi people. They hate us".

I asked you at some point when you claimed that the Pedi people should be notified that they are white, if there are no Pedi people supporting this and the response by someone was that I'm generalising... You've just gone and proved my point. I appreciate it ;)

Pedi, was introduced to the University to assist the many Sotho speaking people. This is called nation building, it was never there before it was introduced as there was a need for it. Now, Pedi is a victim of this whole issue as well. Which is not needed. There is a place for Pedi, just like there is a place for Afrikaans and any other language.
 
Ok so you post all the above, then post the below :confused:



I asked you at some point when you claimed that the Pedi people should be notified that they are white, if there are no Pedi people supporting this and the response by someone was that I'm generalising... You've just gone and proved my point. I appreciate it ;)

When did I say no Pedi people were supporting the protest? You said it was white vs black and I said then Pedi people must be white too then because this affects them too (English vs Afrikaans & Pedi). English is just as much a white man's language as Afrikaans so if this is black vs white, everyone is chowed either way.
 
When did I say no Pedi people were supporting the protest? You said it was white vs black and I said then Pedi people must be white too then because this affects them too (English vs Afrikaans & Pedi). English is just as much a white man's language as Afrikaans so if this is black vs white, everyone is chowed either way.

I asked, and you either ignored it or it slipped through past the many posts. No it was never English vs Afrikaans and Pedi. UP made it vs Afrikaans and Pedi when they brought out the new draft ;) Again, and I'm saying this for the last time. I would have had the exact same view if they wanted to remove Zulu and replace it with Afrikaans. It's not a language thing it's a race thing. Pedi was pulled into the debate this morning. The protest didn't start today...
 
I asked, and you either ignored it or it slipped through past the many posts. No it was never English vs Afrikaans and Pedi. UP made it vs Afrikaans and Pedi when they brought out the new draft ;) Again, and I'm saying this for the last time. I would have had the exact same view if they wanted to remove Zulu and replace it with Afrikaans. It's not a language thing it's a race thing. Pedi was pulled into the debate this morning. The protest didn't start today...

The protest obviously didn't start today. Last week when a lecture refused to end I got on twitter and came to same conclusion as I am now. Some tweets mentioned Afrikaans others Pedi, so needless to say I was confused as to what was going on. Poked around a bit and guess what I saw English vs Afrikaans and Pedi instead of white vs black people.
 
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