UNITED NATIONS
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
FORUM ON MINORITY ISSUES
Geneva Switzerland 25.26 November 2014
Presented by:
Andre Fourie — Freedom Front Plus South Africa
Our request is that this Forum on Minority Issues takes serious note of the
deliberate actions taken by the South African government to dilute and eventually
eradicate Afrikaans-language mother-tongue education for Afrikaners in South
Africa since 1994.
Furthermore - to assist in preventing and addressing the structural and systematic
destruction of its language and culture directed at and targeting a strategic minority
group despite its continuing contribution to job creation, economic growth and the
prosperity of the entire South African nation.
We ask this in the light of:
The government forcing Afrikaans language medium primary and secondary
schools to accept non-Afrikaans speaking learners which eventually leads to
the transformation of the schools into English language medium schools;
The resultant declining of the Afrikaans language medium school numbers
from more than 3000 in 1994 to the present 1429 despite the fact that
Afrikaans speakers continue to remain the third largest language group in
South Africa;
The government forcing Afrikaans language medium public universities to
transform into English language medium universities under the guise of
transformation resulting in no exclusively Afrikaans language medium public
university presently in existence despite the fact that Afrikaans speakers still
remain the third largest language group in South Africa;
The government's continuing establishment of new universities where the
only language of instruction will be English and the resultantdiscrimination
against the other South African languages; and
The fact that research performed by IPSOS reliably indicates that most
South
Africans, including Afrikaners, are in favour of mother tongue
education.
(Note the attached parliamentary answers received from government that informs
the above statements as well as the IPSOS report)
Therefore, we, the FREEDOM FRONT PLUS of South Africa, together with other
registered South African participants Request this Forum on Minority Issues to share and adopt our concerns about this
systematic discrimination committed with impunity not only against the 2 710 461