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Title: | Some thoughts on future language policy for South Africa: with reference to the Language Plan of Action for Africa |
Author: | Kashoki, Mubanga E. |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | African Studies |
Volume: | 52 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 141-156 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | language policy Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020189308707783 |
Abstract: | In the process of planning for the future, South Africa will have to come to grips with the inescapable necessity of formulating an appropriate and comprehensive language policy that will reflect the aspirations and political, cultural, social and economic needs of its people. This article looks at the principal features of the OAU Language Plan of Action for Africa, adopted in 1986, and its implications for South Africa's language policy. The Language Plan of Action stresses the importance of political will as the primary ingredient in utilizing the language factor in a meaningful way in the process of national development. It urges that all languages within the boundaries of a State be recongnized and accepted, and it recommends the gradual take-over of appropriate and carefully selected indigenous African languages as official languages. It is clear that these issues pose important challenges to those whose task it is to shape the linguistic destiny of South Africa. App. (p. 157-162, text of the Language Plan of Action for Africa), bibliogr. |