AfriForum Youth’s spokesman Ian Cameron says: “If our language is not good enough, our money is also not good enough!”
According to Cameron students must be protected in terms of the Consumer Protection Act against university’s language policies when it discriminates against their home language. At the moment students don’t know whether they will receive education in Afrikaans as promised.
Referring to the language policy changes at the University of Stellenbsoch he said Afrikaans students are experiencing an” assault” on their language since the beginning of 2016. This cannot be tolerated.
For this reason AfriForum Youth is planning to launch the #RedAfrikaans campaign. This campaign includes a five-point plan which comprises, amongst others, that Afrikaans students must withhold their class fees until June 2016.
“The damnable lies which the Rector of the University of Stellenbosch (US) is spreading across the country concerning the retention of Afrikaans, must not go unmarked. At the University of Pretoria (UP), the exact same situation is prevalent, with Afrikaners being chased out of meetings where their own mother tongue is being discussed,” added Cameron.
AfriForum Youth is requesting the public to show their support for the retention of Afrikaans at universities across the country by sending an SMS with the word “Afrikaans” to 32687. R1/SMS
