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zulumoose wrote:Afrikaans education is not really dying out, but there is a decline, since there are fewer and fewer Afrikaans medium schools. There is pressure on those that remain to become dual-medium schools.

There is a bit of an Afrikaans culture revival amongst the youth, after a period where it was almost an embarrasment in the post-apartheid backlash against the 'language of the oppressor' as it was often termed. All the artificial promotion of Afrikaans came back to bite them. A positive offspin of that is that English was spared the hostility, since the English speakers were by far the most liberal politically, and thus English has grown as the practical and desired language most useful to everyone, without having to overcome the possible prejudice. This is arguably in everyones interests, as it is without doubt the most practical universal language to have, and in terms of education, the easiest to find resources and motivation for.