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29 May 1995
AFRIKAANS AS ONLY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
We write
to ask that Afrikaans be the only official language recognised in the Republic
of South Africa.
We motivate this suggestion by saying that 16 million
South Africans speak and understand Afrikaans. Less than 10 million people
in
South Africa understand English. To suggest that English is an international
language is untrue: go say that to a Frenchman,
German, Chinese or Japanese, to
mention but a few, and see what their reaction is.
Furthermore, how
culturally honourable the other nine languages in South Africa may be, not one
of them can be used in philosophy
or science or in literature and is merely
district languages notwithstanding the amount of people that will be using
it.
KOTZE LOW & SWANEPOEL (Attorneys)
VRYBURG
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