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THE RAPPORT RIDERS' CORPSE
19 May 1995
WHAT SHOULD OUR
COUNTRY'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGE BE?
Thank you for the opportunity for
allowing us to express our opinion on the issue of the country's official
language.
From the nature of the constitution of the Rapport Riders
Corpse it is naturally obvious that this cultural organisation would defend
Afrikaans as the official language. One of our aims is to maintain Afrikaans
and to expand on that.
We are, however, also not blind to the realities
in our country where everyone probably has the same aims from their mother
tongue.
Here, our sympathy lies with the indigenous languages of which
Afrikaans is one. We feel that it would be a practical solution to
have
Afrikaans and English as the overall official languages, but then every region
can decide for themselves which indigenous languages,
together with one or both
of the overall official languages, they want to adopt.
Good luck with
your task of writing the new constitution.
D J Sadie
chairman
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