Afrikaans Versus English
N South Africa, more than 50 per cent. of the European community use that form of Dutch known as Afrikaans, and, inevitably and quite justifiably, Afrikaans has been recognised as an official language for the Dominion. More than half the schools and colleges use it as the medium of instruction; all government and municipal documents are’ printed in it as well as English; so are road signs, and the names of streets; and in the debates of provincial assemblies and the Union Parliament. It has now become a good deal commoner than English. You may be quite sure, for instance, that in the debates in the House of Assembly on General Hertzog’s motion referring to the war, the bulk of the speeches for and against would be delivered in Afrikaans. The result of this bilingualism or twolanguage system are many-some good, some bad. European South Africans are apt to become extremely self-conscious about their home language, whichever it may be. They talk about it, argue about it, and’ even quarrel about it, many hours in the week.-(" The South African Scene: Language as a Political Issue,’ by Professor J. Y. T. Greig, 4YA, June 29.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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198Afrikaans Versus English New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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