Government may not be allowed to incite self-hate
12 September 2019
Malcolm X, the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in America, once asked his audience who taught them to hate themselves. He was quite right as self-hate is not only destructive, but also unnatural.
The language policies of former Afrikaans universities do not speak of transformation or even nation building, but rather cultural oppression.
The University of Pretoria is a good example of this. Pretoria is a city with approximately one million Afrikaans-speaking people. And yet no lectures may be presented in Afrikaans since the beginning of 2019.
Tuks Res, which manages the hostels, also prohibits the use of Afrikaans in any of their meetings, gatherings, announcements and notices.