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13/06/95
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE/S
Presently, this country has
numerous, more than one, official languages.
In Germany, Germans speak
German, in France, the French speak French, in South Africa, the South Africans
do not since we do not have
a language called South African.
English,
difficult a language as it is, is the universal language of trade/business. It
is even the International Aviation language.
At the end of the day, each and
every person has some experience of or connection with business be it local or
international. I
do believe that the vast majority of persons dealing in or
dealing with money must understand English even if they do not speak
it.
Daily, we are told that there is a shortage of money for this that,
the next thing, most, of these being urgent necessities. If that
in fact is so,
and I do not have a reason to doubt it, then, in due humility, I submit that the
enormous amount of money wasted on
publishing documents etc, in 11 languages or
what the number they do publish these things in, that you use English as your
Official
Language and anybody who wishes to speak or to deal in or to read a
different language can apply to do so, or speak it without application.
I
submit humbly, that the time has come, to throw overboard, emotion and such
other nonsensical concepts and to get down to reality
and to appreciate the fact
that with scarce resources and, there are many of those in this country, one has
to be reasonably down
to earth and intelligent.
WILLIAM JOHN
VANDENBERG
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