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#Luister: Anger spreads over South African school’s ‘racist’ language policy

Amid marches, Stellenbosch University management responds to allegations of racism.

The release of a new documentary has sparked the latest protest in a movement demanding better treatment for black students at South African universities. Students at Stellenbosch University held a march on Tuesday to call for the review of a language policy that keeps Afrikaans as a language of instruction, which they say has “resulted in a culture of apartheid”.