DA joins hands with students in court case against SU-management’s assault on Afrikaans
17 October 2021
Note to editors: Please find attached a soundbite in English and Afrikaans by Dr Leon Schreiber MP.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will this week launch a court case against the management of Stellenbosch University (SU), led by rector Wim de Villiers. The DA is armed with evidence against De Villiers that we carefully collected over the past few months, as well as with the positive precedent set by the Constitutional Court’s recent judgement in the UNISA case.
Our application will request the Cape High Court to declare SU’s effort to use the Covid pandemic as an excuse to finally do away entirely with the provision of learning material to Afrikaans students as illegal, invalid and unconstitutional.
The DA’s case encompasses four aspects: