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A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory

for all first-year students from next year.

The decision by the University of KwaZulu-Natal is aimed at promoting :

" nation-building and bringing diverse languages together "..

Who speaks South African?

• Zulu: mother tongue for 23% of the population
• Xhosa: 16%
• Afrikaans: 14%
• English: 10%
• Sepedi: 9%
• Setswana: 8%
• Sesotho: 8%

      Source: Census 2001

"You can come through the schooling system without learning any of the indigenous African

languages,"

"It is surprising that this is still the case, nearly 20 years after apartheid ended."    :-[

Until white minority rule ended in 1994, English and Afrikaans, based on Dutch 

were South Africa's only official languages.

Mapoui ,

think it is a good idea at University level :

OR should be enforced from kindergarten  ?

and UG bobice will make


bobice language c[color=rgb(26, 26, 26)]compulsory [/color]

Kindergarten may be a bit soon, but there is talk of it becoming compulsory to learn an indigenous language in primary school.

well wat is the actual situation according to the experts.  I wud say kindergarten..as its hard to pik up a langauge by the time you are at university..and do work in the langauge as well.  seems they may need a head start

but chancellor williams dealt with the langauge issue way back in the day in a great book about ghana and african unity.  the problem is much bigger than just RSA.  deh all have to decide on languages de are going to have to use to bring about unity.

Williams suggested that they use english as one that would make them all understand each other and be facile in the world.

then an african language had to be developed ultimately to replace english..or to add to english.. as universal african communcation.

a lot is involved here..but by now an african langauage in RSA should have been instituted in RSA