{"id":223556,"date":"2022-05-04T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/government-continues-support-for-african-languages\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T07:45:57","slug":"government-continues-support-for-african-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/government-continues-support-for-african-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Government continues support for African languages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Government continues to fund students wishing to further their studies using African languages, says Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa.<\/p>\n

The Minister said this while participating in a debate on Freedom Day during a plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year, we fund and support financially, students for African languages, anything between 120 to 400 per annum in all universities which we have in our country,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n

When the liberation struggle regained momentum, apartheid police executed many young people in what was to become known as the Soweto Uprising.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the uprising, which started on 16 June 1976 through a mass march of nearly 10 000 students in Soweto, was the apartheid regime\u2019s decision to make Afrikaans, alongside English, as a compulsory medium of instruction in schools, policies that were aimed at further suppressing black learners from being taught in their mother tongue.<\/p>\n

These policies could be traced all the way back to the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1963.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the apartheid project was to ensure that African languages have no currency and as they were excluded for use in the corporate environment as well as in academia, it is encouraging that we are beginning to see students completing Masters and PhD dissertations across a variety of academic fields using African languages,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mthethwa said while this was an indication of progress, more still needs to be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the first ones to say that there is a lot that still needs to be done. Government is doing its best but the challenges of our country are still facing us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand very well that the road to social progress is always under construction and we are part of constructing that road to social progress,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Today, a lot of progress has been made from those dark days of apartheid \u2013 the black child has a Freedom to take up and use their African language of choice in both academia and in corporate South Africa. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government continues to fund students wishing to further their studies using African languages, says Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa. The Minister said this while participating in a debate on Freedom Day during a plenary of the National Assembly on Tuesday. \u201cEvery year, we fund and support financially, students for African languages, anything between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-223556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/government-continues-support-for-african-languages.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}