The status of Afrikaans is being actively threatened by language imperialism
14 February 2022
1) The status of Afrikaans at residences of the University of Pretoria
On the afternoon of Thursday, 10 February 2022, the Afrikanerbond was approached by the concerned and upset parents of a first-year student in a residence of the University of Pretoria. To protect the student, we will neither mention his name nor identify the residence. The boy informed his parents that he and his roommate were forbidden to speak their home language, Afrikaans, in their room. The ban on Afrikaans was ascribed to "English being the official language".
We took up the matter at once, on Friday, 12 February 2022, with the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof. Tawana Kupe. On that same Friday we received a letter from Prof. Caroline Nicholson, who responded as follows on the instructions of Prof. Kupe:
The University of Pretoria Language Policy (2016) made provision for English as the Language of tuition and primary language of administration and communication. This policy was revised in 2021 and from 2022, Afrikaans and Sepedi will be added to the languages of communication and administration. The implementation of the revised policy will be incremental and an implementation plan has been developed.