“The existence of different languages was recognised and perversely celebrated to legitimise the policy of “separate development” that formed the cornerstone of apartheid...The use of language policy as an instrument of control, oppression and exploitation was one of the factors that triggered the two great political struggles that defined South Africa in the twentieth century – the struggle of the Afrikaners against British imperialism and the struggle of the black community against white rule”

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, 25 November 2002, HIGHER EDUCATION ACT, 1997
The language policy has been used in the past to control, exploit and separate through the instruction of the governments, both colonial and apartheid, yet through the implementation of the controversial language policies, resistance, struggle and affirmation have occurred all in pursuit of democracy.

The British Colony was formalised in 1814 through the government of Lord Charles Sommerset and when in......

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Title: Language Policy In Education In South Africa
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