By implication this means that a mere 50% of the students whose parents had studied at the US will be admitted. The deterioration of the position of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at universities can be ascribed to the government's failure to fund multilingualism. The uniform formula used for the funding of universities makes no provision for extra funding for universities offering education in more than one language. This failure may well be intentional, as numerous requests for the funding of multilingualism have fallen on deaf ears. 4.4 Language and cultural rights Although the ANC pays lip service to the importance of the promotion of indigenous languages, and although multilingualism is recognised in the Constitution, English has, under the ANC's administration, in effect become the country's only official language. The deliberate refusal to accept the Languages Bill drafted in 2003 paved the way for the further anglicisation of the country — a process that had already started in 1994. The ANC government only gave attention to introducing a Languages Act again in 2010, when a lawyer, Cerneels Lourens, succeeded in obtaining a court order obliging the state to comply with its constitutional duty to finalise and implement such an Act. As far as cultural and heritage issues are concerned, rights are being violated by a combination of neglect and deliberate violations. One of the most blatant examples occurred in Standerton, where the mayor ordered a Great Trek commemoration plaque to be removed to a dump by means of a grader. Examples of neglect include the deterioration of hugely significant heritage sites such as Anglo-Boer War cemeteries and the difficulties experienced by subsidised institutions such as the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria to get the allocated subsidies paid into their accounts. Subsidies are also often cut with little warning, leaving the institutions in a precarious position. 5. Call on Forum for Minority Issues AfriForum calls on the Forum for Minority Issues to take a strong stand by insisting that ALL countries take steps to meet the provisions of the Dec laration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic , Religious and Linguistic Minorities. If South Africa is compelled to comply with this Declaration, it would have to stop its assault on minority rights and instead start to expand these minority rights. AfriForum contact info: www.afriforum.co.za afriforumafriforum.co.za 6