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Diversity and Contested Social Identities in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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Banda, Felix; Peck, Amiena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
We draw on Rampton's "Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents" (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of "crossing" to explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), a university built for "Coloureds" in apartheid South Africa, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Self Concept, Cultural Pluralism
Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions for Using New Languages in South African Higher Education: A Linguistic Appraisal
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Mesthrie, Rajend – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper critically examines one particular issue against the background of changes in South Africa's higher education system consequent upon the advent of a non-racial democracy--the possibility of implementing multilingual instructional polices that include indigenous African languages in its universities. Currently, a great deal of applied…
Descriptors: African Languages, Higher Education, Semantics, Democracy
Anglicising Postapartheid South Africa
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Louw, P. Eric – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The apartheid state deliberately encouraged linguistic diversity and actively built cultural infrastructures which impeded Anglicisation. With the end of apartheid has come "de facto" Anglicisation. So although South Africa has, since 1994, had 11 official languages, in reality, English is swamping the other 10 languages. Afrikaans has,…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Social Change