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Article: Our African languages must be allowed to take their rightful place alongside English.(News)
- Article from:
- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2009
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BYLINE: Ed Coombe
The excellent and thought-provoking Insight Page article by Allister Sparks that focused on President Barack Obama's recent speech, "Less of the blame game, more introspection will ensure Africa's prosperity" (July 22) and the challenging piece by Dr Sipho Lombo, "Cultural exclusion at some former Model C schools is widening racial divide" (July 23), refer.
Both deal with the devastating outcome of exclusion, Sparks with the exclusion of black people by the Land Act of 1913 and, through the policy of job reservation, a working class excluded from acquiring skills. He sees this as "our taproot problem" now compounded by the scrapping of ...