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"The Provincial Council accepted my motion that enables Afrikaans as a permissible medium up to the fourth standard."

January 1, 1970

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Germanic languages South Africa

Original Language: English

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C. J. Langenhoven in a telegram to his wife on 23 April 1914, quoted in J. C. Kannemeyer, 1995, pp. 296–7. It implied that Afrikaans received official status in the Cape as medium of instruction in the first six school years, and would effectively replace Dutch in this respect. The Christian community at Genadendal and the Muslim community of the Dorp street madrasa, Cape Town, had however used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction many years earlier.

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C. J. Langenhoven in a telegram to his wife on 23 April 1914, quoted in J. C. Kannemeyer, 1995, pp. 296–7. It implied that Afrikaans received official status in the Cape as medium of instruction in the first six school years, and would effectively replace Dutch in this respect. The Christian community at Genadendal and the Muslim community of the Dorp street madrasa, Cape Town, had however used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction many years earlier.