UP closes campus after student clashes

[Pitbull]

That it isn't Pretoria, which is what you seemed to think based on your reply...

Not how it was meant. The news the last few days will surely be in the minds of every student all over the country. Tensions have reached a point of no return now. Everyone is hot under the collar and ready to explode just give them a reason. And this is true for both sides of the fence all over the country. But I'm waiting to hear what that protest was about.

 

[Pitbull]

FTFY

/facepalm

 

[ngwe23]

The pot has been left boiling too long. I said right at the start of this, the people in Pretoria will die for Afrikaans and their heritage... The EFF just opened Pandora's box...

You would think Afrikaans has been banned. Relax. No need to die, just attend English classes.

 

[Pitbull]

You would think Afrikaans has been banned. Relax. No need to die, just attend English classes.

:erm:

 

[MickeyD]

FTFY

Whoa... are you trying to troll me again?

 

[hawker]

You would think Afrikaans has been banned. Relax. No need to die, just attend English classes.

Why don't the protesters just do that?? :| You've just solved the problem.

 

[Pitbull]

Whoa... are you trying to troll me again?

lol, you doubting it still?

 

[ngwe23]

/tips hat

Question: In which language were most of the lectures when you got your degree?

English, but I hated it when Afrikaans students hijacked out English class because they couldn't be bothered to attend their class an hour earlier. How I wish we had as much audacity and gust as these students.

 

[Pitbull]

English, but I hated it when Afrikaans students hijacked out English class because they couldn't be bothered to attend their class an hour earlier. How I wish we had as much audacity and gust as these students.

Sorry what?

You mean like the black students are doing now? Or Afrikaans students sitting in on your class as they missed Afrikaans and then take the lecture in English instead?

 

[Flanders]

You would think Afrikaans has been banned. Relax. No need to die, just attend English classes.

Nah, it was the paintings that were banned...busses - banned...people's cars - banned...that racist mlungu's office - banned. Tomorrow we ban something else.

 

[MickeyD]

English, but I hated it when Afrikaans students hijacked out English class because they couldn't be bothered to attend their class an hour earlier. How I wish we had as much audacity and gust as these students.

We never had that issue. The lecturer told them to shut up or go back to their own class.

 

[hawker]

English, but I hated it when Afrikaans students hijacked out English class because they couldn't be bothered to attend their class an hour earlier. How I wish we had as much audacity and gust as these students.

Did you ask the lecturer to repeat the afrikaans question + answer in English? Thats what our lecturers did when Afrikaans people asked questions in English classes.

 

[Solitude]

English, but I hated it when Afrikaans students hijacked out English class because they couldn't be bothered to attend their class an hour earlier. How I wish we had as much audacity and gust as these students.

Did they also jump around on the desks and disrupt classes? That's just wrong of them.

 

[MickeyD]

Sorry what?

You mean like the black students are doing now? Or Afrikaans students sitting in on your class as they missed Afrikaans and then take the lecture in English instead?

Happened with us as well. Some students would miss their own class and then try to attend our class to catch up.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Happened with us as well. Some students would miss their own class and then try to attend our class to catch up.

Think it happens everywhere....

If they disrupted the lectures in any way the lecturer told them to sod off....

 

[ngwe23]

Are blacks not proud of their own languages?

We are, but we are also resonance and pragmatic. If I demand Zulu my friend will demand Xhosa etc and then there is chaos.

 

[ToxicBunny]

We are, but we are also resonance and pragmatic. If I demand Zulu my friend will demand Xhosa etc and then there is chaos.

Why does there have to be chaos...

If there is sufficient demand for it, a University would setup a language stream to cater for those students if there is sufficient study material available in the languages.

 

[supersunbird]

We are, but we are also resonance and pragmatic. If I demand Zulu my friend will demand Xhosa etc and then there is chaos.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/kzn-varsity-makes-zulu-compulsory-1516755

School leavers applying to study at the University of KwaZulu-Natal will be required to register for a compulsory course in Zulu from next year, in a first for the South African higher-education sector.

In what the university calls a “watershed” moment in its history, it has decided that students need to demonstrate bilingualism to earn their degrees.

 

[CruelBreeze]

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/kzn-varsity-makes-zulu-compulsory-1516755

A six month course on exchanging pleasantries is not learning in Zulu.

 

[Flanders]

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/kzn-varsity-makes-zulu-compulsory-1516755

Fsck that. When we whites emulate blackness in any way, shape, or form, whether intentional or otherwise, we're called racists. They can sod off.