South Africa As A Language Of Instruction

It has been known throughout the years the class conflicts between people around the world and how it affects many, but during today's times it is not as bad as the times when racial segregation took place between South Africa’s white minority and non-white majority. Nadine Gordimer, is a born and raised South African novelist whose writings focused on exile and alienation. She wrote many novels and short stories that related to South Africa's unjust political situation between the whites and non-whites in the 1900’s. One of the short stories that she wrote is “Country Lovers” which portrays the life in South Africa during those times and how apartheid, a policy that controlled any type of relation between white and black South African’s endorsing racial segregation and racial discrimination against the blacks, ruled over the country. Class played a big role in this short story because the way the whites and non-whites were treated was very different and their opportunities were not equally shared. I believe the ideology of racism was why the non-white South Africans were treated so poorly. This all makes me aware of where I stand in acceptance by other of my social, economic, or political practices. I come to realize that things like this still happen today.

This essay will attempt to give a response of the Rhodes Must Fall writings. It is clear that the rising of movements like Rhodes Must Fall, has been a result of a wave of philosophies of Fanon and Biko “who share a highly similar pedigree in their interests in the philosophical psychology of consciousness” and desire for a decolonising of the mind” (). Their ideologies have the interest of young South Africans. The essay will be done by looking into how the movement wants the university to be decolonised, the statue of Rhodes, alienation the students are experiencing, curriculum change, the university’s lack of cultural space and representation of blacks, racism in the university and social/systematic exclusion of black students.

In the context of South Africa education, teachers are one of the importation pillars in the upliftment and transformation of the society. As South Africa education faces challenges so the teachers too. After restructuring of national government and education in South Africa after apartheid in 1996, education faces with several challenges such as

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In this essay I will state the current challenges with curriculum of South Africa, and what impact it has on me as a student-teacher and my future as a teacher of South Africa. I will state implications of integrating the curriculum in the class and what it means to “transfer” the curriculum to the learners in my class.

From 1976, Afrikaans were to be the medium of instructions from grade 7. English and Afrikaans were on a 50-50 basis. This meant that subjects like maths would be taught in Afrikaans and subjects like Science would be taught in English. Black people were forced to learn in Afrikaans because it was believed that Afrikaans would ‘discipline’

This essay will attempt to give a response of the Rhodes Must Fall writings. It is clear that the rising of movements like Rhodes Must Fall, has been a result of a wave of philosophies of Fanon and Biko “who share a highly similar pedigree in their interests in the philosophical psychology of consciousness” and desire for a decolonising of the mind” (). Their ideologies have the interest of young South Africans. The essay will be done by looking into how the movement wants the university to be decolonised, the statue of Rhodes, alienation the students are experiencing, curriculum change, the university’s lack of cultural space and representation of blacks, racism in the university and social/systematic exclusion of black students.

I found this presentation composed by Daphne Koller to be very interesting, informative, and intuitive. Personally I am an advocate for everyday learning that goes beyond the four walls of a classroom. I found her realistic and modern approach to education rather enlightening and because of this I found it very hard to limit her most interesting parts to just two. It is an age old tale that too many millennials are graduating everyday with degrees in different fields and not obtaining the job that they deserve, or at least a job that can put a dent in their mount of student debt. Fortunately as New York habitants we have the ability to choose between a more affordable educational option like, CUNY and other alternative options. We have a choice that sometimes we take for granted. I found in interesting that Daphne eloquently brought this awareness to us by highlighting that not everyone in the world is given the same opportunity to obtain an education.

Specifically in regards to education, the government targeted the wrong aspect once more. It employed affirmative in university admissions, but with little effect. Recall that the Extension of University Education Act made it illegal for blacks to attend universities without government permission. So when apartheid ended, all universities were open to blacks. But opening a university to blacks doesn’t mean they will attend, and it certainly doesn’t mean they will excel. Just like how apartheid left blacks unskilled and unqualified for jobs, it also left millions of black secondary school students unprepared for higher education. As shown in the figure below, the graduation rate for Africans was 24% lower than that of whites as of 2006. Figure 3: Graduation in regulation time, overall and by population group (%) (http://www.che.ac.za/sites/default/files/publications/Full_Report.pdf

This paper is going to present significant issues regarding implementation of racial segregation impacted by the Apartheids in South Africa. It has been learned that based on the historical events, Apartheid movement against black native is an organization created in South Africa, advocating extremism and reactionary existence of white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration through expression of terrorist activity that occurred in South Africa. Apartheid have been always responsible for the massive violent riots across South African states that burned vast majority of immigrant, non-white, and black houses including all valuable possessions. Moreover, the white apartheid indiscriminately executed non-white and other individuals that were non-whites through lynching or hanging them in the trees and accuse these individuals instantly without conducting investigations. These are one of the hate groups having their objectives of protecting white interests using protestant faith by violence and

Many of the contemporary issues in South Africa can easily be associated with the apartheid laws which devastated the country. The people of South Africa struggle day by day to reverse “the most cruel, yet well-crafted,” horrific tactic “of social engineering.” The concept behind apartheid emerged in 1948 when the nationalist party took over government, and the all-white government enforced “racial segregation under a system of legislation” . The central issues stem from 50 years of apartheid include poverty, income inequality, land ownership rates and many other long term affects that still plague the brunt of the South African population while the small white minority still enjoy much of the wealth, most of the land and opportunities

I have always thought that Nelson Mandela has been one of the most important people in history. I find it very fascinating that one man could end the Apartheid and that is why I want to find out more about this. South Africa is a country with a past of enforced racism and separation of its multi-racial community. The White Europeans invaded South Africa and started a political system known as 'Apartheid' (meaning 'apartness'). This system severely restricted the rights and lifestyle of the non-White inhabitants of the country forcing them to live separately from the White Europeans. I have chosen to investigate how the Apartheid affected people’s lives, and also how and why the Apartheid system rose and fell in South Africa.

Of all the African countries, South Africa is typically considered the one most connected to the English language. South Africa has quite a complex relationship to English, and it provides an interesting study in sociophonology, the aspect of the discipline of language study which focuses on differences of pronunciation which are perceived as socially significant.

It is a common and well known saying that history repeats itself. This saying has more to it than the literal definition of it, it means we need to study it and learn from it, in order to avoid repetition. Often times we have that opportunity to study and learn from history in a way that can impact the future, in a hopefully positive way. In terms of education, improvement and innovation is always a top priority. If we can properly combine the study of other cultures with the study of history, we can have an extremely effective tool for learning ways to positively impact our own generation and future. In this essay, I will attempt to uncover the differences between current education and traditional African education, with intention of learning how to apply it today. The idea behind studying history is that it is a vital part of learning and adopting successful techniques and a good tool for avoiding the repetition of mistakes. If pre-colonial Africa can have success without the resources and technologies we have today, then it is valuable to invest time and effort in mirroring some of their methods.

Freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela, once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” This statement by Mandela is a pointer to the reason why he fought for academic freedom in South Africa before independence. Threats from a nation’s government, institutional bureaucrats and of course academics themselves to academic freedom and to institutional autonomy of universities tend to limit knowledge among students. The independence of the mind is a condition for the independence of a nation (Sall, 2006).