Teaching Mandarin in schools is another slap in the face for African languages

By Russell H. Kaschula, Bulelwa Nosilela, Kathleen Heugh, Monica Hendricks and Pamela Maseko. It’s said that behind every powerful language is an army and money. Consider the case of English. In South Africa, as in its other colonies, the British arrived with the Bible in one hand and the breech-loader in the other. Behind them was the English language, military might and money. More...