Frederik van Dyk writes a response to an opinion article written by Geo Quinot and Sandra Liebenberg, following the release of SA Human Rights Commission's finding that SU violated the rights of students during a 2021 'English Only' language practice.
Frederik van Dyk
Firstly, it doesn't appear to be a common practice for academic staff, at least at SU, to engage in public arguments on the university management's behalf. While the writers’ retort is written in the style of a legal analysis, it quite clearly cherry-picks for those arguable points that are directly based on questionable, oft-repeated public relations mantras of the SU management since the start of the 2021 South African Human Rights Commission investigation.
Instead of engaging the core issue, the writers proceed on an entirely different track. They argue that the commission's finding that SU must maintain respect for Afrikaans at the institution somehow misses"the South African reality", which is that students from all over the country study at SU.
All in all, their non-argument does not engage with the core issue of the impugned English Only malpractices. They simply say that the Commission ought to have taken note that more languages than Afrikaans are spoken on campus.
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