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Original Post Date: 2010-04-19 Time: 12:00:19 Posted By: JanOlifant
[So now speaking Afrikaans is illegal!? Well before they make it illegal, atleast remove it as one of the OFFICIAL eleven languages! This is a breach of HUMAN RIGHTS…the very human right to communication! Afrikaans is Lekker! Afrikaans vir Altyd! Janolifant]
Cape Town. Burger Afrikaans newspaper reports that a hostess of SA Airlines has lodged a complaint against passenger Hendrik Lemmer, a realtor from Stellenbosch and head of Cycling South Africa – for daring to speak to her in Afrikaans.
L…emmer said if she’d asked he would have spoken to her in English.
He said her complaint was ‘horrifying and injures his constitutional right to speak his own language – one of the eleven official languages of South Africa.
Lemmer said the airline hostess ‘was rude from the outset’ with their group, seated on row 16, which is adjacent to one of the emergency exits, on the Tuesday-night flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
The passenger seated next to Lemmer raised her ire when he didn’t look at her while she was providing the special security talk dealing with the emergency exit.
“She talked like a teacher to a pupil and admonished him for not listening to her’, said Lemmer.
Later on the hostess came back to their row to serve another passenger and Lemmer cracked a joke with her, saying in Afrikaans: “I see you are warming up to Row 16.”
She walked away at once and the chief air hostess came to speak to him and said he had ’embarrassed the hostess in front of the other passengers because she could not understand him.’ Lemmer said he was no ‘great activist for Afrikaans language-rights and would have spoken English if she’d only asked.
Comments from Sibusiso Nkosi, spokesman for the Pan South African Language Council,are: “such behaviour is not encouraged especially when taxpayers’ funds are involved.’ And from SAA communication chief Fani Zulu: they were ‘investigating. We don’t have a specific position saying we won’t speak Afrikaans.We will talk a language both would understand.’