A system using English as a common language in multilingual schools, combined with multibilingualism, can be a powerful catalyst for social cohesion.

It is not the language but the excluding culture that causes problems.

The use of a language that bars the majority of black African students – who do not understand Afrikaans – is indefensible.

A language is not preserved by formal applications, but rather in the home, in the arts and in literature, writes Josua Loots.