The quiet innovation that could unlock mother-tongue education in SA
Daily Maverick | 06.02.2026 03:40
South Africa’s debate about language in education has become strangely stuck. Everyone agrees, at least in principle, that learning in one’s mother tongue matters. The Constitution says so. Decades of international evidence say so. Teachers know it instinctively. And yet, when the conversation shifts from principle to practice, it hardens into fear, litigation and zero-sum politics.
